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coming Christians was good, but their coming within St. 

 Peter's fold was better. 



It would be interesting to know, if, in any other district, 

 there is any similar sculpture, commemorative of the same 

 event. 



These are the few observations I have to submit respect- 

 ing the Abbot Stone sculpture. 



On Certain " Markings" on the Druid Circle in 

 HoLYWOOD. By Dr. Dickson, the Secretary. 



The object of the following brief communication is to bring 

 before the notice of the Society ceitain markings upon the 

 stones of the so-called Druids' circle in Holywood. This 

 circle stands, as most of you are probably aware, in a field 

 upon the Dunscore road, about 150 yards beyond the New 

 Bridge toll-bar. The stones are eleven in number, and 

 although forming in themselves a tolerably exact circle, I 

 am disposed to think, from the iiTegularity in theii" distances 

 from each other, that there may have been originally more. 

 No tradition, however, exists of any having been removed, 

 or that the gi'oup has ever been otherwise than it is at pre- 

 sent. A certain superstitious respect still attaches to the 

 spot, and may even have had something to do with the 

 preservation of these curious relics, for gossip still records how 

 upon one occasion some farmer, more zealous in the cause 

 of agriculture than of archaeology, attempted to remove one 

 of them, and that the work was immediately arrested by a 

 violent storm of thunder and lightning. The stones are 

 rough blocks, for the most part boulders, which may have 

 been left, probably near their present site, during the glacial 

 period. They differ much in size and' appearance, but are all 

 equally rugged and irregular as nature has fashioned them. 



The attention which the whole subject of rock symbols 

 and stone sculpture in relation to the early inhabitants of 



