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[Quotation continued]..."of darkness and uncertainty, yet the opinion may be hazarded that these relics were some of them erected previous to the introduction of Christianity into this Country and that others where the cross is introduced belonged to a period Just After that event. When the Symbol of that faith and those of their more ancient superstitions were united on these monuments. There can be little doubt however, of the extreme antiquity of these ancient remains and when the rich dresses which are worn by the characters represented on them, and the extreme value of the suit of Silver Armour found at Largo, are considered it opens up a new view to us altogether of the State of this country at a period which is certainly long antecedent to all written history or even oral tradition. Indeed tradition seems to have been silent on the subject at the time of the earliest historians. Leighton's Hist. [History] of Fife vol III [Volume 3] pp 134, 135, 136."