jeople. Mr. Gordon very juflly imagines that this was ere&ed in
taemory of the vi&ory of Loncarty; for in the upper part are horfe-
jnen, feemingly flying from an enemy; and beneath is another, flopped
by three men on foot, armed with rude-weapons, probably
the peafant Hay and his two fons, putting a flop to' the pannic of
the Scottijh army, and animating his countrymen to renew the
Jght.
I The next which I faw is on the road, with both fxdes full of
fcolpfare. On one a neat crofs included in a circle; and be-
neathlwo exceedingly rude figures of angels, which fome have
mLftaken for charafters. On the other fide are the figures
of certain inflruments, to me quite unintelligible; beneath are
two lien founding a trumpet, four horfemen, a footman, and
petal animals, feemingly wild horfes purfued by dogs; under
fcemisa centaur, and behind him a man holding fome unknown
This is the flone mentioned by Boethius to have been
put uj> in memory of a defeat of a party of Banes, belonging to
.the army of Camus, on this fpot. Quo loco ingens lapis eft erettus.
'Bmnimantium effigies, nomullis cum charaaerihus artificiofte, ut turn
K }»* rent geftam pofteritati annundarenty funt infculpta *.
| 0n[a Tumulus on the road fide is a third, with various fculp-
fad my comprehenfion ; but with the laft are engraven, in
exercife the conjectures of my antiquarian readers,
this is a fourth pillar quite plain; which was probably
over the grave of fome perfon, who was deemed, peril*’
unworthy the trouble of fculpture. This is as artlefs as
* Bctthius, lib . XI. p. 243»
any