List of Illustrations

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

VOLUME IV.

I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. J. Stuart for permission to copy from his valuable work called "The Sculptured Stones of Scotland." The stones themselves are valuable records of the past, but liable to injury, and Mr. Stuart's work is carefully executed from drawings made from stones in particular districts. It is to be hoped that the work may be continued, for there are still great numbers of sculptured stones in Scotland which have not been drawn, and which are works of art. Many of these have been buried by sand drifts, broken through carelessness or mischief, or defaced and spoilt within the last twenty years. One ancient chapel was made a piggery, and some of the thin gravestones were rooted up and broken by these fat successors of the Culdees.