The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ducts of the English mines. A noless unquestionable proof of the unchanging character of the Celticarts is to be found in the fact that the ornamentation, not only onmany of the old Highland brooches and drinking horns, but invariablyemployed in decorating the handle of the Highland dirk and knife,down to the last fatal struggle of the clans on Culloden Moor which ^Martins Western Isles. Lond. 1703, description in the text; and a common brass p. 208. The Glenlyon brooch and the brooch one, probably of the seventeenth century, in of Lorn—worn
The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland . ducts of the English mines. A noless unquestionable proof of the unchanging character of the Celticarts is to be found in the fact that the ornamentation, not only onmany of the old Highland brooches and drinking horns, but invariablyemployed in decorating the handle of the Highland dirk and knife,down to the last fatal struggle of the clans on Culloden Moor which ^Martins Western Isles. Lond. 1703, description in the text; and a common brass p. 208. The Glenlyon brooch and the brooch one, probably of the seventeenth century, in of Lorn—worn according to the tradition of the Collection of C. K. Sharpe, Esq., figured the Macdougals, by Robert the Bruce, and on a later page, furnishes a good example of still preserved in that family—beautiful ex- native Celtic art. amples of this fovourite Celtic ornament, are - Travels in the Western Hebrides from engraved on Plates ii. and iii. The Lorn 17i~2 to 1790. London. 1793, p. 87. brooch corresponds in some degi-ee to the ? Iliid. p. v«<jj iy ?-^??nZr ,Y0 N B F THE TUANSITIOX. 221 abruptly closed the tradition of many centuries, is exactly the sameinterlaced knot-work which we are familiar with on the most ancientclass of sculptured standing stones in Scotland. The annexed figureof a Highland powder-horn of the seventeenth century is from one in
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