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one I have noticed in England) of a cup surrounded by a circle 
of cups, instead of a circular line”—seeming to imply by this 
that the arrangement is at least known on Scottish rocks, or 
elsewhere. Yet in no one of the numerous plates illustrating his 
work is there any example given of such an arrangement. The 
only approach to it is a group of six concentric circles dotted out 
on a monolith in Sweden. 
Captain Conder, R,E., a great collector of lapidary sculpturings 
in the East, to whom I wrote about these cup circles, replied that 
they were new to him. It would be strange if this type proves 
to be peculiar to one part of the British Isles alone. The whin- 
stone rock on which this important constellation of cups is carved 
lies some 200 yards from the centre of the old village of Galt- 
way.* It trends north and south, and much of it having some 
fifty years ago been blasted and quarried away, several square 
yards in all probability of sculptured surface have been lost. 
Beginning at the southern end of the rock, that nearest ‘The 
Gatta” (Galtway village), there is a space exposed of five feet by 
three, and. upon this there are no fewer than 200 cups and 3 
plain rings distinguishable—as shown by the photo-lithograph on 
Pl. III. There are ten central cups ; seven of these have a ring 
of cups seven in number, and one an additional plain ring. Of 
the three remaining centrés, the largest has, first, two plain rings, 
and beyond these two cup rings containing 21 and 42 cups 
respectively (?) The next has four circles of cups, beginning with 
14; and the third has a small ring of seven cups, and an outer 
one of fourteen.t The diameter of the largest ring is 15 in., of 
the next 94 in., and*of the third 6 in. The cups vary from 3 in. 
to about # in. in diameter, and are barely half an inch deep. Many 
of them are worn down almost beyond detection. Fifteen feet 
north of this sculpture is a second cutting perhaps even more 
interesting and peculiar. (Pl. IV.) I have called it a probable 
attempt at drawing a tree. My friend, Mr Hornel, who dis- 
covered this, made a cast of about a square foot of the lowest or 
westerly portion of the rock, and was at once struck with the 
resemblance to a tree. At that time he had not observed the 
connection of the main broad straight groove GG with the curved 
* Known to have been inhabited during the Irish Rebellion, 1641. 
+ Such at least was the first reading of this ring-puzzle which Mr 
Hornel and I made. Where all is so vague, I think we are as much 
entitled to a solution of seven as to a solution of three, which is a favourite 
interpretation of other ring-sculptures. 
