Archaeological essays . an host, namely, King-horn ; the old town of Wester Kinghorn lying only about three orfour miles below Inchcolm, and the present town of the same name,or Eastern Kinghorn, being placed about a couple of miles furtherdown the coast. We might here have adduced another incontrovertible argu-ment in favour of this view by appealing to the statement, givenin the above quotation, of the existence on Inchcolm, in Boecestime, of Danish sepulchral monuments, provided we felt assuredthat this statement was in itself perfectly correct. But beforeadopting it as such, it is necessar
Archaeological essays . an host, namely, King-horn ; the old town of Wester Kinghorn lying only about three orfour miles below Inchcolm, and the present town of the same name,or Eastern Kinghorn, being placed about a couple of miles furtherdown the coast. We might here have adduced another incontrovertible argu-ment in favour of this view by appealing to the statement, givenin the above quotation, of the existence on Inchcolm, in Boecestime, of Danish sepulchral monuments, provided we felt assuredthat this statement was in itself perfectly correct. But beforeadopting it as such, it is necessary to remember that Boece describesthe sculptured crosses and stones at Camustane and Aberlemno,^in Forfarshire, as monuments of a Danish character also; andwhatever may have been the origin and objects of these mysteriesin Scottish archaeology,—our old and numerous Sculptured Stones,with tlieir strange enigmatical symbols,—we are at least certain ^colomm llistoriw, lib. xi. f. 225, 251. IN THE ISLAND OF INCHCOLM. 77. Si nlptiiK (1 stdiu, In that tlicy are not Danish eitlier in their source or design, as nosculptured stones with these peculiar symbols exist in Denmarkitself. That Inchcolm contained one or more of those sculpturedstones, is proved by a small fragment that still remains, and whichwas detected a few yearsago about the garden-wall,A drawing of it has beenalready published by ^ (See woodcut, ) In the quotation whichI have given from Holinsheds Chronicles, the old sepulturesthere (on Inchcolm) to be seene grauen with the armes of theDanes, are spoken ofas^manie in number.* Bellenden usessimilar language : Thir Danes (he writes) that fled to thairschippis, gaif gret sowmes of gold to Makbeth to suffer thair freindisthat war slane at his jeoperd to be buryit in Sanct Colmes memory heirof, mony auld sepulturis ar yit in the said Inche,gravin with armis of In translating this passage fromBoece, both Holinshed and Bellenden overstate,
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