Archaeological essays . ons. At that time the Cat-stanewas a larger and much more imposing monument than it is now,as shown in the following description of it. One monument, sayshe, I met with within four miles of Edinburgh, different from allI had seen elsewhere, and never observed by their antiquaries. I ^ The Scots Magazine for 1780, p. 697. See also Smellies Accoxmi of theInstitution and Progress of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1782), p. 8. ON THE CAT-STANE, KIRKLISTON. 145 take it to be tlie tomb of some Pictish king; though situate by ariver side, remote enough from any church
Archaeological essays . ons. At that time the Cat-stanewas a larger and much more imposing monument than it is now,as shown in the following description of it. One monument, sayshe, I met with within four miles of Edinburgh, different from allI had seen elsewhere, and never observed by their antiquaries. I ^ The Scots Magazine for 1780, p. 697. See also Smellies Accoxmi of theInstitution and Progress of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1782), p. 8. ON THE CAT-STANE, KIRKLISTON. 145 take it to be tlie tomb of some Pictish king; though situate by ariver side, remote enough from any church. It is an area of aboutseven yards diameter, raised a little above the rest of the ground, andencompassed with large stones ; all which stones are laid length-wise, excepting one larger than ordinary, which is pitched on end,and contains this inscription in the barbarous characters of thefourth and fifth centuries, in oc tumulo jacit vetta f. victi. Thisthe common people call the Cat-Stenc, whence I suspect the persons. Fiff. 15. name was Getus, of which name I find three Pictish kings ; for thenames pronounced by the Britons with G, were written in Latinwith V, as we find by Gwyrtheyrn, Gwyrthefyr, and Gwythelyn,VOL. I. u 146 ON THE CAT-STANE, KIRKLISTON. which were written in Latin Vortigernus, Vortimerus, and Besides writing the preceding note to Dr. Eowland regardingthe Cat-stane, Mr. Lhwyd, at the time of his visit, took a sketchof the inscription itself. In the PhilosopJiical Transactions forFebruary 1700, this sketch of the Cat-stane inscription was, witheight others, published by Dr. Musgrave, in a brief communicationentitled, An Account of some Eoman, French, and Irish Inscrip-tions and Antiquities, lately found in Scotland and Ireland, by Lhwyd, and communicated to the publisher from Mr. JohnHicks of Trewithier, in Cornwall. The accompanying woodcut(Fig. 15) is an exact copy of Mr. Lhwyds sketch, as published in thePhilosophical Transactions. In
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