44 Transactions. 



The next intei-esting deviation of type is represented on a small 

 piece of rock close to the road and a few yards west of Low 

 Milton Cottage. It is shown on PL VII., Fig. 2. The upper 

 portion of this rock having been well under the turf, this cutting 

 of a single cup and ring is more than usually deep and distinct. 

 They have evidently, when fresh cut, been a good inch deep. 

 Tiie serpentine groove which comes out of the ring is also at its 

 upper end very clear, but, as it bends down to the ring below and 

 enters its cup, it becomes almost hypothetical. At six inches to 

 the left of this lower cup is a third cup, also obscure. I do not 

 find any trace of the prolongation of the groove towards this 

 third cup. 



Near the farm of Milton, and not far from the remains of a 

 Fort, there are innumei-able surfaces of the whinstone exposed — 

 some nearly flat. On the flattest of them all I found the design 

 shown in PL VII., Fig. 1. It is remarkable for the perfect 

 precision of its circles, the straightness with which its cups lie in 

 a line, and the curiously short lip of the largest ring. They are 

 carved in almost, if not quite, a due N. and S. line. There is 

 something, not only in these details, but in the size, shape, and 

 appearance of the surface of this rock, not a little suggestive of 

 the lid of a kist-vaen. The following are the dimensions : — 



Greatest length of stone ... ... 4 feet 6 inches. 



width ,, 2 ,, 6 ,, 



Diameter of largest ring ... ... ^i ,, 



,, ,, cup ... ... 3^ ,, 



,, of smaller ring ... ... 3J ,, 



., Clip H ,, 



These Milton liekls contain then at least 42 cups and 44 rings, 

 distributed over a total of seven groupings or " localities." I 

 have little doubt that more yet remain to be discovered. Some 

 of the most remarkable of these Petroglyphs were those found by 

 Mr E. A. Hornel and myself on the 23d of February, 1887, in 

 the neighbourhood of Old Galtway, Knockshinnie, and Balmae. 



At High Banks, by the kindness of Mr Rigg, we were shown, 

 tirst of all, a surface of whinstone upon which we could trace an 

 elaborate design composed of central cups and rwi.ffs of cups, or 

 cupped circles. This arrangement of a cup surrounded by a ring 

 of cups, which, to us, seemed a new fact in this study, would 

 appear to be not so rare, for Sir J. Simpson says — " On the 

 Rowtin Lynn Rock (Northumbei'land) is an example (the only 



