The Decorative Sculpture: Chequers 295 



St. Vigeans (ca. 900 ?)/ Hilton of Cadboll,2 Nigg,^ Tarbet,^ Crieff,^ 

 Barfreston,^ Mugdrum,'' Forres (?),^ Camuston,^ Dupplin.^o Haver- 

 sham," Keils and Kilarrow/^ Kildroman (on Islay),^^ and Oronsay." 



According to Anderson, the fohage-scroll,. ' though it is an excep- 

 tional feature of the monuments [in Scotland] previous to the twelfth 

 century, becomes the prevailing and dominant feature of the West 

 Highland monuments of a later period ranging from the thirteenth 

 century to the Reformation.' ^^ 



lona has a cross erected to the memory of Lauchlan McFingon, 

 and bearing the date of 1489, which has a foHage-scroll, but without 

 birds or animals.^® 



Numerous other instances of the vine- or fohage-scroll might be 

 cited, but the object of the foregoing is to show that this decoration 

 may be found in practically any century from the second to the 

 fifteenth, and that hence it is not safe to place too much dependence 

 upon this feature in an attempt to date the cross. The conclusion of 

 Rivoira has been quoted above (p. 78, note 2), and deserves peculiar 

 consideration. 



2. THE CHEQUERS^'' 



Chequers (Fr. damier, echiquier) are an ornament belonging espec- 

 ially to Romanesque architecture, and found from the end of the 



1 Ibid. 3. 236-8; 1. Ixii ; Anderson, Scotland in Early Christ. Times 2. 

 51, 130, 194; Stuart, Sculpt. Stones of Scotland 2, PI. 127. 



2 Anderson, Scotland in Early Christ. Times 2. 130, 233 ; Anderson, Early 

 Christ. Mon. of Scotland 1. Ixi ; Allen, Early Christ. Mon. of Scotland 3. 62. 



^ Anderson, Scotland in Early Christ. Times 2. 130. 



* Ibid. 2. 130, 233 ; Allen, Early Christ. Mon. of Scotland 3. 73 ; Anderson, 

 Early Christ. Mon. of Scotland 1. Ixi. 



5 Anderson, Scotland in Early Christ. Times 2. 130 ; Early Christ. Mon. 

 of Scotland 1. Ixii; 3. 313-5. 



« Michel 12. 517. 



' Early Christ. Mon. of Scotland 1. Ixi; 3. 367. 



8 Ibid. 1. Ixii. 



9 Ibid. 1. Ixii; 3. 254; see the fuller Ust, ibid. 2. 404 

 10 Ibid. 1. Ixii; 3. 321. 



^1 Calverley, in Trans. Cumb. and Westm. Antiq. and Arch. Soc. 12. 246. 



12 Stuart, Sculpt. Stones of Scotland, p. 1, PI. 35. 



13 Ibid., PI. 34. i« Ibid., PI. 38. 

 1^ Early Christ. Mon. of Scotland 1. Ixi. 



1^ Daniel Wilson, Prehistoric Annals of Scotland 2. 247-8 ; Stuart, Sculpt. 

 Stones of Scotland 2, PI. 47 ; Anderson, Scotland in Early Christ. Times 

 2. 131. 



" See p. 26. 



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