THE Lost Stone oF KIRKMADRINE. 141 
to run over two stones, why a third was added, why there 
was put in Latin on the third stone a translation of the 
Greek formula on the first. 
ee 
‘ Mi 
aT! 
eo 
25— 
SS a 
= 
Note on the Kirkmadrine Stone. 
By W. G. CoLLINGwoob. 
This stone was described in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., ix., 
p- 569, with an illustration, and mentioned in Romilly Allen’s 
Early Christian Monuments, Scot., p. 495. As the date, 450 
to 550, is a good deal later than St. Ninian’s actual building, 
It may be safer to say that the use of the Chi-Rho monogram 
was brought in from Gaul through the intercourse of the 
Church in Galloway with its parent Church of St. Martin’s. It 
need not have been imported by the masons of Candida Casa, 
for they were probably dead by the time the earliest of the 
Kirkmadrine stones stood on cairns. 
Moreover, the Chi-Rho is found in the early British 
Church in Wales. A very well known example is the Carau- 
sius stone at Penmachno (plate 3, fig. 1, from Westwood, 
* Lapidarium Wallie, pl. 79), in which the lettering is 5th or 
