Scotland in Pagan Times; The Iron Age
Part 25
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_EDINBURGH: DAVID DOUGLAS_ 1881
=CONTENTS.=
I. MATERIALS AND METHODS.
II. STRUCTURAL REMAINS.
III. STRUCTURAL REMAINS.
IV. EXISTING RELICS—BOOKS.
V. EXISTING RELICS—BELLS.
VI. EXISTING RELICS—CROSIERS AND RELIQUARIES.
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"The (then) chief, journeying with his clan to join Brace’s army before Bannockburn, observed, on his standard being lifted one morning, a glittering something in a clod of earth hanging to the flagstaff. It was this stone. He showed it to his followers, and told [Illustration: Fig. 17. Clach-na-Bratach.] them he felt sure its brilliant lights were a good omen and foretold a victory—and victory was won on the hard-fought field of Bannockburn.
"From this time, whenever the clan was ‘out,’ the Clach-na-Bratach accompanied it, carried on the person of the chief, and its varying hues were consulted by him as to the fate of battle. On the eve of Sheriffmuir (13th November 1715), of sad memory, on Struan consulting the stone as to the fate of the morrow, the large internal flaw was first observed. The Stuarts were lost—and Clan Donnachaidh has been declining in influence ever since.
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