friftory of FORRES PILLAR . — Part 3d. 
fevera] portions of this column, given in thefe plates, are io contrived in 
riofit tne exe cution, that they may be palled together; fo that any one, whofe cu- 
]q ac ] ^ , rria y prompt him to fee the general effect of the whole, may thus have a 
°f model of this remarkable monument. 
Th 
COt ifi{f l '^ er ^‘ v ^ 10n °f die call front of the pillar, given in the annexed plate, 
ln S principally of nine uniform horfes with their riders, with fome waving em- 
fient above, does not require any great length of comment : the obliterated 
1 which the figures now appear, and the indefinite exprefiion of the orna- 
are lU< -h as admit of little farther illuftration of their import. 
’I'h 
the ei>r'^ rei " te ^ ^ art °^* t ^ ie rever ^ e °f die pdlar is occupied by a fumptuous crofs ; 
c ienc f 1C ! ments °f which are a curious and elaborate performance ; of thefe a fuffi- 
%^res^ eCl Tlen ' S ^’ ven ,n plate VT. of Antiquities and Scenery of Scotland. The 
Hick ^ pedeftal under the crols are alluded to in the following oblervations, 
conclude its hiftory. 
Hat fQ S ment i° n ed among the previous remarks on this fuperb monument, that 
they a jj r !^ er hiftorians had faid of the reprefentations on it, lhould be cited; but 
$ep t . eem t0 coincide with, or are taken from, thofe of Mr. Gordon , Itinerarium 
is v er ;f^ where, although he mentions the total defeat of the Scandinavians, he 
that °f t h e traditionary appropriation of the fculptures on the column 
'' t her e eVent ’ ' Wh y this obelifk was raifed, or how to explain the feveral figures 
" by t i° n ’, * am >” fays he, “atalofs; but cannot forbear thinking that it was erected 
K } lis e Scots after the battle of Murtlach * ” And Mr. Guthrie , who feems to fol- 
" ad Qr °P ln i° n s, had taken but a curfory view of the pillar, when he fays, « It is 
** tronk- 6 ruc ^ e fculptures which are now unintelligible, but reprefent warlike 
P les and marches.” s 
f U * 
f C(j , ^dineation, however, of the feveral arrangements of the figures implied by 
Hlic ati UreS 0n being now, by thefe plates, laid before the encouragers of this 
°Mtig the y are enabled to judge of the propriety of the application of the fol- 
J t ^ ec dotes t0 die fubjedl, in elucidating the general tradition concerning it, 
j s ctefted in memory of the defeat of the Banes. 
vt ears ftom the annals of 'Torfu-us f, that a body of Scandinavian adven» 
ned by chieftains from Caithne/s , in the ninth century, had eftablifhed 
f Antiquities and Scenery, p. 128, & c. 
themfelves. 
