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For example, one is found well removed and on the other 

 side of the sculpturing, some 9^ feet distant (the first men- 

 tioned focal point) from the mouth shown within the human 

 head. 



The largest sector on this side, like its companion, can 

 be divided with similar success into many radial and con- 

 centric areas. The main or bisecting radius of one large 

 sector is not parallel with that of the opposing sector, the 

 divergence being as usual very small, amounting at Anwoth 

 to two degrees. 



These coincidences are repeated in many archaic sculp- 

 turings throughout various countries, and are not fortuitous. 

 It is also clear that the system now proven to underlie 

 the earliest Christian incised work embodies conceptions very 

 much akin to those held by the architects and philosophers 

 of the Neolithic Age and of the Bronze Age. These ideas 

 survived into the Early Iron Age, and still later into the 

 early Christian centuries. 



Thus, when the veil is lifted, it is perceived that, for 

 example, the ground plans of the horned cairns of Caithness 

 of about 2000 B.C., and the dispositions of the designs cut 

 on stones — cups, rings, rayed suns, ovals, ducts, ladders, 

 rows of dots, crosses, lozenges, and so forth — belonging to 

 the succeeding millennia have strong affinities with the 

 arrangement of the Anwoth rock scribings of 600 a.d. 



From a mere curvilinear and rectilinear system the sym- 

 bolic carvings became later imbued with the trumpet-shaped 

 or flamboyant lines of the " Late-Celtic " art (a product 

 vastly improved when the British craftsman touched it), and 

 finally there were introduced the forms of beasts, birds, 

 fishes, flowers, and plants, and even, as at Anwoth, the 

 portrayal of the human head. 



It would seem that the ethical values were increased' as 

 the system grew from millennium to millennium, conforming 

 to the slow evolution of religious and moral concepts. Thus 

 throughout the ages one may discern, if the eye is watchful, 

 how concepts in mysticism, religion, art, geornetry, astro- 

 nomy, almost all become enshrined on the imperishable rocks 

 and stones. 



