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Title: The archaeology and prehistoric annals of Scotland
Year: 1851 (1850s)
Authors: Wilson, Daniel, Sir, 1816-1892
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Publisher: Edinburgh : Sutherland & Knox
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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the bandages of a mummy ; it is laced across thebreast, and stitched with a strong leathern thong entirely up the backfrom the neck to the heels, and along the soles of the feet. It hasbeen removed to the Dunfermline Museum, where it is preserved sus-pended in a glass case—in some respects a more eloquent mementomori than the Egyptians imperishable type of evanescence : ashroud which has escaped the mortality of the corpse within its folds.The coffin has been assigned by local antiquaries as that of Edward, theeldest son of Malcolm Canmore; but there is no evidence to justify (!iah;uus Mominicnts i.tIoiiii. n. Id. Plati xx.xiii. ;,hau tha^ of tl > Along with tinoted the ( evidi iiOW- Vm They ;, lions, leopards, ornamental scrolls, ar . L. . ,ui..i ...iits patterns. Other examples of th • ■different desiims, hAvo also been dug up in th irrton. The reli *!i. and M «np Uiosi re;i! iost intere.- and bell di- vcryotht, .. pronouuf^ orwegian ; and with a perversity of logic, wlii
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ECCLESIASTICAL ANTIQUITIES. 653 multiplies the evil tenfold, the Rev. J. S. Howson, on comparing itwith the numerous sculptured crosses of the district, so faithfully de-scribed by him in the Cambridge Camden Societys Transactions,and finding that the scroll-work on the bell-case, and the figure ofour Saviour, are closely similar to the corresponding representationson the Argyleshire crosses, jumps to the conclusion that they alsomust needs be Scandinavian.^ The very opposite conclusion wouldseem unavoidable, were it not that this idea of the supremacy ofScandinavian art in Scotland has superseded reasoning, and maintainsits ground in defiance of evidence. History leaves no room to doubtthat the Scandinavian invaders devastated and destroyed many nativeworks, and greatly retarded the full development of the arts of civilisa-tion of the Scottish Christian era. Scottish antiquaries certainly dis-play a truly forgiving spirit in crediting them with the invention ofwhat little escaped the

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