. Transactions and journal of proceedings . ateends. This was a feeble design, and may not have appealedto the artist. On the Logierait stone^s the perfectly straightrod is relieved by being thickened and furnished with afoliageous top, buds and young leaves sprouting from it,while at the lower terminal there are bulbuous or root-like 28 291, fig. 308b. Archaic Sculpturings. 147 growths. Another straight-stemmed floriated and rooted tree is depicted on the Inverury, No. i stone.^9 AtLogierait and Inverury the serpent is coiled round the stemor rod. The artist was apparently fond of st
. Transactions and journal of proceedings . ateends. This was a feeble design, and may not have appealedto the artist. On the Logierait stone^s the perfectly straightrod is relieved by being thickened and furnished with afoliageous top, buds and young leaves sprouting from it,while at the lower terminal there are bulbuous or root-like 28 291, fig. 308b. Archaic Sculpturings. 147 growths. Another straight-stemmed floriated and rooted tree is depicted on the Inverury, No. i stone.^9 AtLogierait and Inverury the serpent is coiled round the stemor rod. The artist was apparently fond of strengthening thelines composing his picture by doubling the contour line ormaking the stem turn abruptly at \arious angles, caringhttle for the original form so long as the composition wascompact and harmonious. At St. Vigean^o the tree or rod is slightly bent at eachend, and its outlines thickened, while the serpent doublytwisted round the stem has its head and tail arranged to pointoutwards and balance the terminals of the stem, which are. Fig. 10—Showing the Evolution of The Tree and Two Discs, The Two Discs alone, The T\vo Discs Bridged, The TwoDiscs Bridged with Z-shaped Rod. 29 168, fig. 179. 30 L.^n. fig. 253. 148 Archaic Sculpturings. diverted at right angles. The tree or rod, however, settleddown into two stereotyped forms, one bent like a reversed Z,the other like a V, both types being well fitted to live, fromthe artistic point of view. The tree is an extremely archaic symbol, standing forknowledge aspiring upwards from the human mind. The Fall of Knowledge happened when wisdom entered,but this subject is touched upon later in discussing the bentrod figure at Anwoth. The Corsewall House Monument. On the front of a cross-slab (Figs, ii and 12) once atKilmorie Chapel, Kirkcolm, now at Corsewall House, is acrude portrayal of the Crucifixion within the area of the is a human figure, on the left of which are two birdsshown looking towards the
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