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below the Agnus Dei, there are three figures with helmets on their heads
and swords in their right hands. On the other side of the cross there is
a robed figure in a sitting posture, with a sword across his knees, and
with one foot resting on the back of a horned animal.

It has been erroneously supposed by some that this arch must have formed
part of the principal doorway of the "palace," but from the fact of its
bearing such symbols as the Cross and the Agnus Dei, there is no doubt
that it belonged to an early church.[6] Bearing in mind the legend of
the founding of a church to S. Andrew in the time of Hungus, perhaps the
suggestion of Dr Joseph Anderson has great probability--viz., that the
four figures are "not contemporary, but early representations of King
Hungus and his three sons."[7]

All lovers of antiquarian lore will be interested in knowing that, a few
years ago, there was brought to light at Forteviot, and through the
kindness of the parish minister, Dr Anderson, exhibited to the Society of
Antiquaries a fine specimen of a bronze bell of Celtic type (the fifth of
the kind known in Scotland), whose date is believed to belong to about
the middle of the 10th century.

NEAR THE PICTISH CAPITAL would be found, as a matter of course, the royal
hunting-grounds. Very probably these were on both sides of the
Earn--stretching westward into the neighbouring parish of Dunning, the
northmost part of which is still called Dalreoch or Dailrigh, a word
which, in Gaelic, means the King's haugh or field.

To DUNNING, or rather to some of the objects in it, that are of the
greatest archaeological or antiquarian interest, the remainder of this
chapter will be devoted.

In many ways that we can readily conceive, traces of the proximity of
Dunning to a royal residence must have existed from an early period. The
existence of hill forts, as at Rossie-Law, and the discovery, from time
to time, of arms and stone coffins, indicate that the parish must have
been often the theatre of strife and bloodshed. Duncrub,[8] or, as it is
called in a Pictish chronicle, "Dorsum Crup," is said to have been the
scene of a battle, which is thus referred to by Robertson in his _Early
Kings_--"The reign of Duff, the eldest son of Malcolm the First, and
representative of the senior branch of the Royal family, appears to have
been passed in a continued struggle against the pretensions raised by the
now rival line of Aodh in the person of