. Transactions and journal of proceedings . ; Hiibner, TnscriptionesBritanniae Christianae, 1876, p. 18, No. 51. 160 Archaic Sculpturings. symbol, as it occurs some hundreds of times on one pagealone. The sacredness of this emblem is apparent by itsbeing- placed on the coins and on sculptured stones near thecross, and within the glory of specially sacred personages onthe manuscripts, such as the Psalter of Ricemarch and theGospels of MacDurnan. It is seen on the garments of theVirgin Mary and the Evangelists in the Book of , in that book its absence on some figures indicates theant
. Transactions and journal of proceedings . ; Hiibner, TnscriptionesBritanniae Christianae, 1876, p. 18, No. 51. 160 Archaic Sculpturings. symbol, as it occurs some hundreds of times on one pagealone. The sacredness of this emblem is apparent by itsbeing- placed on the coins and on sculptured stones near thecross, and within the glory of specially sacred personages onthe manuscripts, such as the Psalter of Ricemarch and theGospels of MacDurnan. It is seen on the garments of theVirgin Mary and the Evangelists in the Book of , in that book its absence on some figures indicates theantithesis of sanctity, for while the robes of Christ arelavishly decorated with the symbol, the clothing of the Jews(shown in the same picture) who arrested Christ bear novestige of it. It would be tedious, however, to refer to theoccurrences of the numerous variants. The variant of three parallel lines occurs, as on the Drum-more stone (Fig. 21) and in other places in Scotland, some-times without terminal pellets. The variant is seen on the. Fig. 21—Cross-slab at Drummore. Archaic Sculpturings. 161 marginal decoration of the St. Vingeans stone, No. lo, ontle walls of the Doo Cave, Fifeshire, in the early manu-scripts usually set transversely on borders, as also on theborders of the brooch symbol occurring on the Monymuskstone. A cross incised on a slab at Loch Sween, Argyle,described in 1904 by Dr Christison has associated with it,at two places, a set of three parallel lines, which can onlyconvey the trinitarian idea. The symbolism seems in Kurope to have gone out ofvogue very early. In its last phase it occurs as pellets onlate mediaeval British coins. The trefoil of the Irish manu-scripts may survive in the shamrock, and the triskele in theemblems of Sicily and the Isle of Man. These seem to beall that modern man has to show for a once widespread groupof symbols found as far away as the North American con-tinent, where the tri-form patterns were engraved on shellsby the pre-
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