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with an arched recess. It is arrayed in a long
coat and holds in the right hand a bone and
in the left a crown. Beneath it are a sand -
-glass and skull.
Leaning against the East gable of the
ruined church is an oval stone measuring
2'.5" by 1'.2" inscribed Here lyes ane
yo --- Thomas Sloan who left this life Januar[y]
26 1673 of his age 38. and carved on it
an angel's head with outstreched wings and
beneath it a skull, cross bones, spade and
shovel. On the reverse are the initials TS and
AS. and the inscription
A holy righteous sober lyfe
He on this earth did liv
And his soul enow in glor doth reigne
With God in heaven abov.
In the manse is preserved a brass
alms dish 13" in diameter bearing in
the centre in repousseé work a represen:
:tation of the annunciation. It is
German work of probably the 15th cent. [century].
A dish from the same mould is at
Arbroath and one with a similar representa:
:tion in the British Museum.
In the porch beneath the tower of the

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