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TRANSACTIONS LIVERPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



It is in connection with these old keeils and the 

 later Parish Churches, some of which are on the ancient 

 sites, that those carved stone monuments have been found 

 in which the Isle of Man is so peculiarly rich. With but 

 few exceptions these are sepulchral, and take the form of 

 upright slabs of local stone, ranging from about 2ft. 6in. 

 to six and, in a few cases, seven or eight feet high, by 

 about 15in. to 24in. wide, and from two to four inches 



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Fig. 27. Ogam inscriptions. Diagram by P. M. C. K. Scale ^th. 



thick. They are generally " rectangular, sometimes 

 having the upper corners rounded off, and sometimes the 

 whole head in what has been called a wheel-cross. 

 Occasionally the spaces between the limbs and the sur- 

 rounding circle are pierced, and, in a very few instances, 

 the slab is itself cruciform.''* 



* Catalogue of Manks Crosses, P. M. C. Kermode, 2nd Ed., p. 4. 



