of his prowefs perpetuated by fculpture. Hence it became a creH, when armorial 
enfigns came into vogue. 
But whether the figuring of that animal on thefe Hones. originated from the 
Hate of Caledonia itfelf, and the circumHances alluded to above ; or was borrowed 
from delineations brought from the continent, in the channel already fpecified, 
may not perhaps be pofitively determined ; but the cuHom of placing the effigies 
of ferocious animals, as well as domeHic and emblematical ones, at the feet of 
faints and heroes, was prevalent, at the sera of thefe, on the continent. Refem- 
blances of the lion and wolf, the dog and lamb, are often fo placed on monu- 
ments carved in France , in the nth and 12th centuries. Examples of thefe 
may be feen in the LVth and other plates of the Englijh tranflation of Montfaucon’s, 
Antiquities. 
We need not therefore be furprifed at the awkward and feemingly unfuitable 
appearance of the two Hrange animals at the feet of the figures on the fragment 
marked A. They may be placed there as animals of ufe, or as an emblem of 
plenty: in fome countries a herd of fwine was confidered as fubHantial wealth. 
It is not probable that they can here have any religious allufiori; for, whatever 
might have been the cafe in the fyHem of Druidi/m, they can have no reference 
to the rites of ChriHianity, to which the central emblems of this piece of fculpture 
evidently apply. 
Thefe obelilks feem to have been fometimes raifed by the vanity of the living, 
as a monument of their fame and power, and perhaps more frequently fo than as 
any memorial of the dead ; for there never is any emblem of mortality on them. 
The principal Hone figured in this plate, marked II, is Hill in great preferva- 
tion, firmly fixed on a rifing ground, furrounded with Heps: it is but a few hun- 
dred yards difiant from the fea-fliore * ; and on the adjacent rocks there are re- 
mains of a caHellated houfe, called Sandwich . Within the circle of a few miles, in 
that difiritH, are many fimilar monuments ; but tnofl of the others are either fallen 
down or broken, however many curious fragments of them are Hill to be feen. 
That as at d, exprdfes the nature of feveral of the circular ornaments, which 
on others are much obliterated, as at D. The animals devouring others, at C, 
&c. give fcope for animadverfion — but this article has already exceeded its due 
bounds. 
* See the Reverfe of this Monument, Antiquities and Scenery of Scotland, plate xii. page 65. 
