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the small middle group of rings. The diameters of the largest 

 ring in each group, counting from the north end, are 11, 8^, and 

 8 inches respectively ; and the small oblong measures 4 inches 

 by 2. In several spots hard by Brighouse Bay and Senwick 

 there are reputed cups and rings. One or two which were 

 reported to me proved to be mere weatherings ; of others I 

 cannot yet speak by personal examination. 



The next important sculpturing is the one I referred to on 

 the first page — the slab at High Auchenlarie, in Anwoth, 

 described by Prof. Simpson. In PI. II., Fig. 7, is shown what 

 seems a very careful and accurate representation of this stone. 

 It is important in many ways. Simpson says it was dug up by 

 plough many years ago on a piece of waste land, and its exact 

 relations to any other stone, or to the well-known stone circle at 

 High Auchenlarie, were unfortunately at the time not noticed. 

 But he thinks it may have been a Kist-cover. It would be very 

 interesting to ascertain this. With the two exceptions I am 

 about to adduce, we have no instance in Galloway, so far as I 

 know, of cup or ring marks being found cut on anything hut rock 

 in situ. I have examined monoliths, stones, or so-called "Druidi- 

 cal " circles, boulders, &c., and as yet have seen nothing in the 

 form of genuine cups and rings carved on these surfaces, with the 

 following exceptions : — (a) In Tongland, on the lower slopes of 

 Barstobric, there is a much glaciated smooth and very hard block 

 of whinstone (Greywacke), measuring roughly four feet by two, 

 and in thickness about one foot eight. On this there are two 

 large and very distinctly and smoothly cut cups, measuring 

 respectively 5| in. and 4 in. in diameter, and 3J in. and 2 in. 

 deep, (h) The other exception is, still on the west side of the 

 Dee, miles away among the moors to the north of Cairnharrow. 

 Here on a wild gloomy spot, 700 feet above sea level, I found 

 near, but in no apparent connection with, a tumulus and two 

 stone circles and kist-vaens, two cups on a rough dark grey sand- 

 stone block. One is of the ordinary form ; the other is remark- 

 able, being funnel-shapeA, about 2^ inches deep, and about the 

 same in surface diameter, and \ of an inch only wide at the 

 bottom. Cup-hollows of exactly this type have also been found 

 in Ohio, and near Penrith. 



The Auchenlarie slab — now preserved at Cardoness — displays 

 some fresh points of interest ; for it contains not only many and 

 varied typical markings, but has one sculpturing on the lower 



