Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 42Society, 1908 - Archaeology Includes List of members. |
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Aberdeenshire ALEXANDER appears Archæological Archdeaconry of Lothian Architect arrow-heads Bart Berwickshire blade bones boulders bronze Bronze Age Caereni cairn Caithness Carrick Castle Celtic centre church cist Coldingham colour cup-marks decoration Douglas dynit Earl east Edinburgh Enterit excavation F.S.A. Scot feet 6 inches flint fragments Gaelic GEORGE girth Glasgow Glasgow Determination Grantully Ground-plan House iiij implement inch in thickness inches inches in breadth inches in height inches in length inscription JAMES JAMES BALFOUR PAUL JOHN League and Covenant Lennox letter Library LL.D London Lord Lothian MACKAY Marc marks measures Midden Museum ogam Orkney ornament parish Perthshire Place portion pottery prehistoric Rector ecclesie Remains of Circle Road ROBERT Roscoff round Royal Scotland Scottish shows side signatures skull Society spear-head specimen St Andrews Standing Stone Street subscribed surface Terrace texture THOMAS valued vessel Vicarius WILLIAM
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Page 169 - It consists of six articles, in which the subscribers bind themselves — (i) to endeavour the preservation of the reformed religion in the Church of Scotland, and the reformation of religion in England and Ireland " in doctrine, worship, discipline, and government, according to the word of God, and the example of the best reformed Churches...
Page 169 - A solemn League and Covenant for reformation and defence of religion, the honour and happiness of the King, and the peace and safety of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
Page xix - Vice-Presidents shall be elected for a period of three years. One of the VicePresidents shall retire annually by rotation, and shall not be eligible for re-election to the same office until one year has elapsed.
Page xx - The Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held on the second Monday of each month, from December to May inclusive.
Page 169 - Maiestie and his Houshold, with sindrie otheris, to the glorie of God, and good '$ example of all men att...
Page 120 - SIR, — In reply to your inquiries regarding the Druidical circle at this place, noticed in the " Perthshire Advertiser" recently, I have now to inform you that the stones are quite close to the turnpike road ; they are six in number, and quite regularly placed; the figure they form is elliptical, its greatest diameter, due north and south, being about 27 feet, and the lesser diameter 22 feet ; the height of the large stone in the south of the figure is about 6^ feet from the surface, that of the...
Page 101 - It stands on the grass}' bank bounding the east side of the road, about a third of a mile from the edge of the fir-plantation last-named, and at about 820 feet above sea-level.
Page 171 - Jx 13 inches and is in a good state of preservation. [1589 Bond. A third Covenant in the same folio is now lost. It was thus described: 'Ane Bond of Association for defence of the Protestant Religion against the detestable Conspiracy, then called the Holy League, made by Foreign Papists, which was subscribed by King Ja.; with a great number of the Nobility and Burgess, anno 1589.
Page 172 - Kirk by bishops, and the civil places and power of kirkmen, upon the reasons and grounds contained in the Acts of the General Assembly, declared to be unlawful within this Kirk, we subscribe according to the determination aforesaid.
Page 121 - ... as they now are, the ground surrounding them having this spring been levelled, and otherwise made suitable for a garden or nursery. In the process of levelling the workmen had occasion to dig or trench the earth in the inside of the circle, in doing which they occasionally turned up wood charcoal, or cinders, generally mixed with the remains of burnt bones; in some instances the bones appeared to have been placed in the ground enclosed in rude clay urns, fragments of which were found along with...