111. Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. xii. p. 356.
112. Described by Dr. Arthur Mitchell, Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. vi. p. 249.
113. The Saga of Gisli the Outlaw, Dasent’s Translation, p. 72.
114. This bracelet is described and figured as Fig. 140, at p. 160 of this volume in the Lecture on the Celtic Art of the Pagan Period.
115. Described by Dr. John Alexander Smith in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. i. p. 213.
116. Described by Lord Rosehill in Proc. Soc. Antiq. Scot., vol. viii. p. 105.
117. This “diamond broaching” is very common in the reparations of the Roman wall and its stations between the Solway and the Tyne, while the stones used in Hadrian’s original erections are severely plain.—Dr. Bruce, in Lapidarium Septentrionale, p. 39.
118. These details are taken from a paper by William Borlase, Esq., in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1868 (Second Series, vol. iv. p. 161), where a ground plan and sections, with woodcuts of the structural appearance of the building are given. Mr. Borlase mentions other structures of the same class at Pendeen, Bolleit, Chysoster, and Bodinar.
119. Paper by J. T. Blight, Esq., in Archæologia, vol. xl. p. 113, with ground plan and woodcuts.
120. “We cannot pass over one other important accessory to the characteristics of this book. The publisher has certainly spared nothing to make his part of the work equal to the importance of the subject, and in paper, print, and tasteful appearance, there is nothing to be desired. We cannot always say this much of the publications which come before us; but it is a pleasure to do so in a case like this.”
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