Hand-drawn watercolor and ink sketches of a horned bovine shown in side view and relief-style panels. Yellow-brown tones dominate; handwritten notes appear around the animal figures.

And sometimes there are even #symbolic substitutes for larger, more complex depictions. Like, for example, the #bucranium ("ox head") instead of an aurochs in its entirety, arrow-like zigzag lines instead of snakes, or large birds reduced to a few lines.

Its use on this otherwise Art Deco building presumably relates to its proximity to the former meat and cattle market on the other aide of Gallowgate.

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