188 W. Theobald — Notes on some of the symbols found on the [No. 3, 
and not of the particular school whence it took its name, than a mixtnro 
of Paganism (and especially of its emblems) with Christianity — and a 
very natural mixture — that might, and probably did, at some time or 
other, prevail more or less wherever Christianity was found ? ” (Pre- 
face 1. c. p. xiv). Doubtless there are thousands of educated people 
to-day as unconscious as Mr. Stuart, of the extent to which Christianity 
as regards its symbolism, has been riddled with the mycelium (to 
use a botanical simile) of the impure cult of Baal and Ashtoreth, and of 
which the pomp and symbolism of Romish worship or its puny shadow 
in Anglican circles is the direct descendant and morphological outcome. 
I would here quote the word of G. P. Browne in his paper on Sculptured 
Stones in Scotland. 
“ The resemblances in ornamentation oblige the observer to wonder 
whether races develops like ornaments, at like stages of existence, 
though separated by half a world, and by ages of years. The geogra- 
phical distribution is one among many points of interest. No Scottish 
stone north of the Tay and Clyde can long be mistaken for a North um- 
bi-ian. A cultivated sense will tell whether an English stone belongs to 
Mercia, that is, the Midlands, or not, and will generally be able to dis- 
tinguish a Yorkshire stone from a Bernician. No stone of any of these 
families can be mistaken for an Irish or Welsh, or Manx stone. But, 
and the fact is most startling, it would not be easy to tell, of whole 
groups of decoration, whether they belong to the Pictish monuments, or 
to the golden plates discovered by Schlieman at Mycenas.” {Magazine 
of Art, Vol. VI, p. 15.) 
The above writer might have added to the above sentence the 
punch-marked coins of India as I have abundantly been able to show in 
the proBOut paper. 
In the remarks which follow, S. S. S. stand for the ‘ Sculptured 
Stones ’ of Scotland above mentioned, and following a coin, the letters 
O. C. indicate that it is in the collection of Dr. O. Codi-ington ; B. M. 
that of the British Museum ; and A. C. that of General Sir Alexander 
Cunningham. The first symbol I shall quote as identical both on the 
coins and on sculptured stones in Scotland is the ‘ Swastica.’ No. 232, 
of this paper (fig. 134). In fig. 200 I give a symbol from a stone at 
Balquhiddar, Perthshire (S. S. S. Vol. II, P. LXVII, fig. 3,) which is 
simply identical with the Indian. 
In fig. 201, Igive the form of a ‘ Triskelis’ from the maiden stone, 
chapel of Garioch (S. S. S. V'ol. I, PI. 2, fig. 2,) and the symbol occurs 
frequently elsewhere and is identical in design with the archaic form of 
the ‘ Triskelis’ No. 5, of this paper (fig. 130.) On the maiden stone, the 
most conspicuous ornament on one side is a ‘Triskelis’ inside a circle, 
