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Archaeological essays (1872)

Simpson, James Young, Sir, 1811-1870, Stuart, John, 1813-1877 · Edinburgh : Edmonston and Douglas · leaf 107

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de sculptured figure on its upper surface. In his Historyof Fife, published in 1710, Sir Eobert Sibbald has both drawn anddescribed it. It is (says he) made like a coffin, and very fierceand grim faces are done on both the ends of it. Upon the middlestone which supports it, there is the figure of a… … Fi-. Danish Monument. the single block of stone forming the monument, and not, as herepresents, on a separate supporting stone. Pennant, in his Tourthrowjh Scotland in 1772, tells us that this Danish monument lies in the south-east [south-west] side of the building (or monas- ^ Scotorum Historian…

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