British Bard and an Ovate, Druidic priests, of the pre-Roman era. The bard sits on a rock in blue robes and holds a telyn (harp). The Ovate wears green robes, the colour of learning, and points at the trunk of an oak tree cut into a Tau or symbol of god. Handcoloured aquatint by R. Havell from an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from Samuel Meyrick's Costume of the Original Inhabitants of the British Islands, London, 1821.

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