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Laura Knight, Corporal J.D.M Pearson, GC, WAAF (1940)

The Book of Kells contains the four Gospels of the Christian scriptures written in black, red, purple, and yellow ink in an insular majuscule script, preceded by prefaces, summaries, and concordances of Gospel passages. Today, it consists of 340…

The Crescent and the Crescent with a V-rod through it, appear often on the Pictish Stones.


The crescent is thought to symbolise the moon/sun and also thought to symbolise death.


The V-rod is thought to be a bent or broken arrow.

The face of this Crescent is covered with key pattern design.

Underneath the Crescent with interlace, the symbols may be the back and front of a mirror, alternatively the larger one may be a mirror case.
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