The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . siderable depth. The floor, like those of the cathedral of Kirk-wall, and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Edinburgh,1 waspaved with plain square glazed tiles, of the three primarycolours of red, blue, and yellow, each of them being about six 1 Wilsons Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, ii. p. 45L>. 1G4 LAND OF THE LINDSAYS. inches square, and an inch thick. They were placed in thecommon diamond form, and had doubtless been the flooring ofthe church, which was erected in 1380. One o
The history and traditions of the Land of the Lindsays in Angus and Mearns; with notices of Alyth and Meigle; . siderable depth. The floor, like those of the cathedral of Kirk-wall, and the Church of the Holy Trinity at Edinburgh,1 waspaved with plain square glazed tiles, of the three primarycolours of red, blue, and yellow, each of them being about six 1 Wilsons Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, ii. p. 45L>. 1G4 LAND OF THE LINDSAYS. inches square, and an inch thick. They were placed in thecommon diamond form, and had doubtless been the flooring ofthe church, which was erected in 1380. One of the monu-ments is about three feet high, and bears the incised figures ofa cross and dagger, resembling those on a stone at the churchof The other measures five-and-a-half feet bythree, with the rudely incised effigy of a robed hands are in a devotional attitude, and these words areengraved round the side of the stone— fjic • facet • fjonoralnltsutr tins rcrfjcrfo • bx * ~ - = bicartbs • lie • finfjcbort * tf*i • obttt •z° • tit Here the inscription abrupt
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