30 Address of the Vice-President, 



With the Crosses and Obelisks may be ranked the simple 

 Monoliths, or single upright stones occasionally met with. 



But where there is no inscription or sculpture on them, as 

 in the case of the great monolith on Dalarran Holm, which 

 the Society had lately, in one of its excursions, an oppor- 

 tunity of inspecting, little remains for its elucidation save its 

 position and situation, and any existing traditions respecting 

 it. 



These are the observations I had to make on the Fixed 

 Structures of the district. 



Portable Articles 



are the next in order. These comprise 



Articles of Furniture and of Dress. 



Domestic Utensils. 



Implements of Trade. 



Military Weapons and Instruments. 



When the tomb of King Robert Bruce was opened at 

 Dunfermline in 1818 and 1819 the body was found lying 

 enclosed in two layers of lead, which had been wrapped round 

 the body in the nature of a sear cloth, with fragments of an 

 embroidered linen cloth in a greatly damaged condition. 

 This cloth had apparently been thrown loosely over the lead, 

 as a shroud. It was of fine linen interwoven with threads 

 of gold.* 



A portion, or rather bit or morsel, of this royal tissue was 

 presented to the Society of Antiquaries by Sir Henry Jardine, 

 then King's Remembrancer. 



The preservation or existence of this cloth after so long 

 a period of years was not to be expected, and, generally, in 

 our antiquarian researches we cannot look for articles so 

 perishable, which decay and come to dust. 



We must ordinarily content ourselves with finding articles 

 * See Traus. Soc. Antiq., 4to vol, 2, p. 435. 



