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HADDINGTON.] -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION. -- [HUMBIE.

1870 is incised and probably records a later
repair. The bridge is in use and in good
condition.

x. N.E. 1 July 1913.

77. Cross-head at Manse, Haddington.-By
the side of the manse doorway is preserved the
upper part of a wheel-cross head of a very
peculiar type. It is of sandstone, 15 inches
across and 4 1/2 inches thick. The height of the
fragment is 9 inches. The ornament consists
of a St. Andrew's Cross in low relief, plain
and flat, but with a groove in the centre of the
arms giving the appearance of the cross being
formed of four V's with their points converging
in the centre of the cross head. In the
middle of each arm the groove is deepened for
2 1/2 inches. The width of the arms is 4 1/4 to 4 1/2
inches. On the flat space between the arms at
the head of the cross a small cross 2 inches
across the arms had been incised. There
appears to have been another in the corres-
ponding place on one side. Each of these
spaces may have had one.

x. N.W. 30 May 1913.

78. Graveyard.-Some 70 yards east of the
Abbey Farm (No. 79) in an oblong wooded
enclosure is a graveyard in a state of desolation.
At the eastern end are two table stones greatly
weathered, with illegible inscriptions. On the
south is a 17th century headstone bearing the
funereal insignia of the period.

x. N.E. 1 July 1913.

79. Abbey Farm.-The Abbey farmhouse
lies 1 mile east-north-east of Haddington. The
northmost building in the farm steading, now
used as a store, appears to date from the
16th century. It presents no features of
interest.

x. N.E. 1 July 1913.

80. Stone with Spiral, Cockles Smithy.-At
the north-western corner of the cross-roads at
Cockles Smithy about 2 miles south-east of
Haddington is a rounded boulder embedded in
road scrapings, on which a spiral of two turns
has been carved, the free end of the spiral
terminating in a recurving bifurcation. The

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breadth of the spiral is 4 inches and including
bifurcation the design measures 6 inches across
(fig. 10).

x. S.E. (unnoted). 30 May 1913.

SITE.

The O.S. map indicates the following site:-

81. St. Mary's Convent x. N.E.

HUMBIE.

ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURES.

82. Keith Church.-The ruin of this church
is situated on a knoll a short distance to the
north of the mansion of Keith-Marischal,
which is distant 2 miles west-south-west from
Humbie Station. The building (fig. 93) is
orientated and

[illustration inserted]
FIG. 93.-Keith Church (No. 82).

has comprised
nave and chan-
cel, as is indic-
ated by the
lesser width of
the latter div-
ision. The
west gable and portions of the lateral walls,
more particularly towards their western end,
have been reconstructed in post-reformation
times. The east gable and the eastern end
of the south wall do not appear to have
been interfered with since their erection in
or about the 13th century. The former meas-
ures 15 feet from ground level to the wall head,
above which it is skewed to receive a steeply
pitched roof. In this gable are two narrow
lancet windows with pointed heads. Exteriorly
a broad double chamfer is carried round the
jambs and heads, which are widely splayed to
the interior. The sills are modern. Above
these windows is a vesica, from which the in-
filling has been removed.
At the eastern end of the south wall is a
window 1 3/4 feet wide at the daylight, with a
chamfer-cusped head and elementary eyes. The
head is formed from a single block of ashlar,
on which is incised a circle on either side of
the head, the wester with six straight rays,
the easter with closely set undulating rays.
Similar roundels are found in Rome in the
churches of S. Sabina and S. Maria in Cos-
medin flanking crosses on 8th and 9th century