The ecclesiastical architecture of Ireland, anterior to the Anglo-Norman invasion; comprising an essay on the origin and uses of the round towers of Ireland, which obtained the gold medal and prize of the Royal Irish Academy (1845)
Petrie, George, 1789-1866 · Dublin : Hodges and Smith · leaf 286
apparently the capital of acolumn ; two sides of it are visible, both are ornamented with a patera, but each sidein a diiferent manner ; one consists of a flower of sixteen large leaves, and fifteen[sixteen] small ones, relieved the eighth of an inch, and the other of six leaves branch-ing from the… … Dr. Ledwich, who finds illustrations of the Danish mytholocry inmost of these sculptures, makes the following observations on thisone, of which he gives a very inaccurate representation: Two ravens picking a skull. This bird was peculiarly sacred to Odin ; he iscalled the king of ravens. In the…
Church architecture · Round towers
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