The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . v«<jj iy ?-^??nZr ,Y0 N B F THE TUANSITIOX. 221 abruptly closed the tradition of many centuries, is exactly the sameinterlaced knot-work which we are familiar with on the most ancientclass of sculptured standing stones in Scotland. The annexed figureof a Highland powder-horn of the seventeenth century is from one in. the possession of Mr. James Drummond, bearing inscribed on it theinitials and date, G. R. 1685. The triple knot, so common on earlyScottish and Irish relics that it has been supposed to have been
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . v«<jj iy ?-^??nZr ,Y0 N B F THE TUANSITIOX. 221 abruptly closed the tradition of many centuries, is exactly the sameinterlaced knot-work which we are familiar with on the most ancientclass of sculptured standing stones in Scotland. The annexed figureof a Highland powder-horn of the seventeenth century is from one in. the possession of Mr. James Drummond, bearing inscribed on it theinitials and date, G. R. 1685. The triple knot, so common on earlyScottish and Irish relics that it has been supposed to have been usedas a symbol of the Trinity, is no less frequently intioduced on theHighland targets and brooches of last century, and is shewn alongwith other interlaced ornaments, on an example of the latter intro-duced in a subsequent chapter. On the theory of the introduction of metallurgic arts assumedhere, not altogether without evidence, it is not requisite that weshould conceive of the aboriginal Caledonians disturbed by the inva-sion of foreign tribes armed with weapons scarcely less strange tothem than those with which the Spanish discoverers astonished thesimple natives of the New World. The changes, however, alreadynoted in the forms and modes of sepulture, the abandonment of thelong barrow, the introduction of cremation, of the sitting or foldedposture of the dead with the correspondingly abb
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