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The early Christian monuments of Scotland (1903)

Allen, J. Romilly (John Romilly), 1847-1907, Anderson, Joseph, 1832-1916, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland · Edinburgh, Printed by Neill & co., limited · leaf 569

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ocli Caolisport, 11 miles S.W. of Avdrishaig). — There is in tlie old burial-ground here a slab of mica schist (figs. 418a and 418b), 6 feet long, with a circular hexafoil design,^ probably intended for the six-armed variety of the Chi-Rho monogram, at the top and a Maltese cross below it on the… … A. — Front. B. — Back. Fig. 418. — Upright cross-slab sculptured in semi-relief, at Cladh Bhile, Ellaiy. verse. It is not easy to fix a date for this monument ; it is probably early, or it may be as late as the 13th century. Described and illustrated in Capt. T. P. White’s Archccul. Sketches in…

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