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Mr. PETRIE'S Inquiry into the Origin and 



It shows the two faces of the stone, and is copied, on a reduced scale, from a 

 drawing by Beranger, together with its section, which accompanies it. 



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It is not easy to determine the situations in the building of the two stones 

 represented in the illustrations which follow. The first would appear to be an 

 arch-stone, and the second a portion of the architrave of the east window. 

 They are engraved from sketches recently made. 



The small cut annexed, which represents another sculpttired stone at the 

 monastery, not now to be found, is copied from Dr. Ledwich's Antiquities of 

 Ireland; and as the author gives no account of it, I am un- 

 able to determine its situation in the building, or whether 

 it was the ornament of a frieze or capital. I think it, how- 

 ever, most likely to be the latter ; and its singularly clas- 

 sical character makes it too interesting to be omitted in these notices. 



To the preceding illustrations I have only to add the ground-plan of one 

 side of the chancel archway, already referred to, and coupled with it a sketch of 

 one of the sepulchral crosses of Glendalough, which I give as a cotemporaneous 

 specimen of the use in such monuments of what Dr. Ledwich calls Runic knots. 

 This cross is of mica slate, the stone of the district, and is situated in the ceme- 



