454 Mr Robert Middlemas on an Ancient Inscribed Stone. 



that the instrument used had a sharp round point, and must 

 have been held in a similar way to the modern chisel. The 

 marks shew the size of the point. The object of the artist 

 evidently has been to fill the stone with ornament as between 

 the two great circles ; and at the corners he has placed 

 smaller circles to suit the space. The similar nature of the 

 circles on all the stones hitherto figured would seem to show 

 that such stones, if monumental, were not legendary, but 

 most probably of a religious character; serving, like the 

 Christian cross, to invite the traveller to pay his devotions on 

 a spot rendered sacred by the emblems of worship. The 

 drawing is nearly one inch to a foot. 



Robt. Middlemas. 



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