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These walls are usually comparatively smooth ; and in many places, 
though not in all, they retain the figures cut upon them. The 
cave figures consist of animals, as the elephant, — exactly of the 
form seen on the Sculptured Stones, — the deer, the dog, the swan, 
the peacock, fish, serpents, and monsters. On them we see also 
representations of the mirror, comb, and arch or horse-shoe. No 
perfect example of the crescent ornamentation exists in these cave 
sculpturings ; but many specimens of the spectacle ornament are 
to be found on their walls, both with and without the intersecting 
Z sceptre. 
One of the cave-figures is specially interesting, from the fact 
that it is the exact counterpart of the only analogous carving found- 
on aught except a monolith, viz., a scale of silver armour presented 
to the Antiquarian Museum of Scotland by Mrs Durham of Largo, 
and whose history is this : — A man still living in Life — a huckster 
— acting, it is said, upon an old tradition, that a knight lay buried 
in silver armour in a small barrow called Norrie’s Law, stealthily 
dug into it, found in reality the silver armour, and removed and 
sold it in pieces to the amount, it is alleged, of four hundred 
ounces. By the time this spoliation was discovered, the ‘silver 
armour was all melted, except a few fragments. One of these frag- 
ments is a scale, having cut upon it a spectacle ornament traversed 
by the Z sceptre, and having appended to one end of it the head 
and shoulders of a dog, as in some modern Orders of European 
knighthood. Precisely a similar figure, with the appended dog’s 
head, is carved upon the interior of one of the Wemyss caves. 
On the walls of some of the caves there are crosses of various 
forms; and in two or three parts appearances somewhat resembling 
letterings, and symbolic arrangements of figures or hieroglyphics. 
On the walls of St Adrian’s caves are lines which some have believed 
to be half obliterated Kunes ; and the Eev. Mr Skinner of St 
Andrews has a loose stone from this spot which ].>resents, he thinks, 
Kunic characters. 
Among the cave sculpturings at Wemyss, there is a figure of a 
man of diminutive form; and Mr Stuart has traced among them 
faded outlines of a full sized human figure, apparently tailed, as if he 
formed one of the provokingly missing links which some enthusi» 
astic ethnologists are so anxiously and vainly searching after. 
