284 Statements concerning Sir Walter Scott. 



line, Walter." It does not follow tliat the tradition was 

 true ; ancient Standing-stones seem to have been pressed into 

 the service of visitors both at Flodden and Killiecrankie. 

 "The gentlemen like best to hear he was killed at the big 

 stane." 



From Sir Walter's theory about the Standing-stones in 

 Yarrow, it seems evident he never had any idea of the kind 

 of interest attaching to the inscription, as a very early one, 

 and apparently one belonging to what may be roughly 

 called the Arthurian period. 



(Though he seems 'fully to have recognised the Catrail as 

 the frontier of Cumbria, which he says extended to about 

 Melrose. The suggestion seems to have been originally 

 Whitaker's.) 



It was the late Dv John Alexander Smith who examined 

 the inscription scientifically; while it was almost a chance 

 that — looking in an old Latin dictionary, with a view to the 

 engraving of it furnished to the Club from one of the 

 photogra[ihs fortunately taken of the cast, in Edinburgh, 

 before it was painted over — I came upon the late Latin 

 word Memoria, for a tomb, an actual sepulchre. Dr Hardy 

 subsequently followed up this word, which it appears is 

 used by St. Augustine. And since then at least two inscrip- 

 tions have turned up in Wales and Cornwall, containing the 

 word in exactly this sense. 



The first, found at Lewannick. some miles from Launcestim, 

 in Cornwall, is engraved in the Illustrated Archceologist for 

 September 1894. It is a rough, upright pillar stone, 

 engraved in precisely the same large staggery capitals as 

 those of the Yarrow inscription, " Ingenui Memoria" — the 

 tomb of one Ingenuus. There is an Ogham inscription 

 on the edge of the stone, which, if I remember right, is 

 merely the name repeated. 



The second specimen, is given in the same journal in the 

 following year, after its junction with the Reliquary. It was 

 found at Llanfallteg, on the borders of Pembrokeshire and 

 Carmarthenshire, and seems to be a flat stone. It is in one 

 way the best of the three ; while one cannot say, without 

 seeing the stones themselves, whether either is more distinct 

 than the Yarrow inscription — Ingenuus is at present unknown 

 to us otherwise — and though the Scotch example perhaps 



