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Archaic Sculpturings. 



variant with terminal pellets, on the Craignarget stone (Fig. 

 9). On a monument at Meigle^^ it occurs as a group of four 



Fig. 9 — Cross-slab at Craignarget. 



men placed in swastika form, one hand of each man holding 

 the foot of the other, an attitude which indicates the unbreak- 

 able character of the association of each figure with its neigh- 

 bours. This elaborate variant of the symbol seems to symbolize 

 aptly the four quarters of the earth, each quarter being repre- 

 sented by a man. The four quarters make a complete circle, 

 and therefore all humanity through love and affinity should 

 join from the four parts and form one inseparable bond of 

 brotherhood. 



IS r.S.A.S., vol. xii., p. 425, pis. xxv.b and xxvi.E; T^.CM. 

 iii., 304. figs. 318b and 319. 



