FOOTNOTES:
[1] "The monument reverses the order of paternity of the two individuals, making Wecta the son of Witta, instead of Witta the son of Wecta, in which all the old genealogies agree."—Athenæum, July 5, 1862, p. 17.
[2] "The vowel is far more distinctive of the two names than the difference of c and t, letters which were continually interchanged."—Ibid. August 2, 1862, p. 149.
[3] Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, vol. iv. p. 181.
[4] The Sculptured Stones of Scotland, vol. ii. Notices of the Plates, p. 71.
[5] Archaic Sculpturings of Cups, Circles, etc., upon Stones and Rocks in Scotland, England, and other Countries. Edin. 1867.
[6] British Archaic Sculpturings, p. 126.
[7] Idem, p. 20.