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Transa^ticns 47 



Some two hundred yards to the south-west of this ridge of 

 rocks at High Banks, we stand in the midst of tlie turf-hidden 

 multitudinous middens and shapeless walls of the once well-to-do 

 village of Galtway (locally called "The Gatta"). On a small 

 projecting and flat piece of coarse-grained sandy whinstone, we 

 find an interesting type of petroglyph (shown in PI. V., Fie. 2). 

 It contains a cup 1 in. in diameter, round this an incomplete 

 circle 4 in. in diameter, round this a second incomplete circle 

 6i in. wide, and lastly, an arc of above the tliird of a circle, 

 which, if complete, would have a diameter of 11 inches. This is 

 a noticeable sculpture, as there is no doubt, on examining the 

 rock, that these segments were cut and left incomplete. There 

 are other sculptures on the site of " The Gatta," but all of tlie 

 ordinary cup and ring type. 



TJie next rock-surface v-isited contains a highly interesting 

 sculpturing, discovered by Mr Hornel. It lies nearly at the 

 summit of a wooded and rocky hill called Knockshinnie, some 

 300 feet above sea-level, and within a mile of the sea itself. 

 Nearly half-way between it and the Dunrod rock-markings is the 

 site of the old Castle of Drummore. The design of thfs petro- 

 glyph is shown on PI. V., Fig. 1. It is rather too vague to admit 

 of an elaborate fac-sunile being made, but its prominent features 

 are these— Four concentric rings with central ^cup and a much 

 larger cup between the circumferences of the two outer rings— 

 precisely the arrangement noticed above on one of the Dunrod 

 rocks. It occurs also on the Rhynie stone (mentioned by Mr 

 Jolly in the paper above referred to), with this difference that the 

 ring-line cuts tlie cup in halves. There is also a simple cup, with 

 a semi-circle above it, at the higher or south-east e.xtremity of 

 this curious design ; and the irregularity of the long groove and 

 of the concentric rings, together with the extremely worn and 

 obliterated state of this entire group of markings, lead one to 

 fancy this may have been an early work indeed of this ancient 

 school of design. Below this part of the hill, on rocks in the 

 home-fields of Balmae, north of the house, are isolated examples 

 of plain cups and cups with single rings, one of these cups being 

 of the unusual diameter of 5 inches. Quite close to the ou^ 

 houses at Balmae, I found a very clear and prominent piece of 

 cutting. (See PI. V., Fig 3.) The rings are a little irregular, 

 but the cups quite circular, grooves and cups being something 

 under one-third of an inch deep. This is remarkable for having 



