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portion on the left. Unfortunately the rock is greatly broken, 
on the southern side especially, and all the higher portion—on 
the left in the plate—very much obliterated. Of the two 
upright grooves marked DD I am inclined to be doubtful—the 
only fact in favour of their artificiality being that the shorter one 
does not continue beyond the cup. It may, therefore, like the 
very distinctly-cut groove T, be considered as a stem of our 
supposed tree. Of all the rest of the design, the main stem T, 
the ground line GG, and the groups of cups and ovoid hollows on 
either side of the stem, there can be no doubt on the point of 
artificiality. They are perfectly clear cut, deep, and unweathered; 
‘and each cup as well as the grooves are full of unusually-distinct 
and decided tool marks. Indeed, so decided are these that they 
suggest the only doubt in the matter—were these cups and grooves 
not cut by something harder than the flints of our pre-historic 
forefathers? There are two very short scratches on the lower 
side of the ground line GG, one of which has suggested the notion 
that it was once continued and formed the corresponding arm of 
across. I cannot think that either of these marks has anything 
to do with the design at all; they are much more like marks 
made by the teeth of a harrow. On the same line of rock surface 
the following sculptures are found :—A group of concentric rings 
with central cup, the largest ring beiné twenty inches in diameter 
and the cup one inch. The rings are five in number, and are 
much weather-worn. A little to the north of this is a wonder- 
fully fresh and deep cup two inches in diameter, having four 
rings round it, all very clear ; one of these rings being so much 
deeper than the space next the cup groove #$ to make it look like 
a ridge above the surface of the rock. This is a rather uncommon 
form. I have records of only two others at all similar; one is on 
the Kist-cover at Bleaton-Hallett, Blairgowrie, and the other is 
mentioned by Mr Jolly in his paper on “The cup-marked stones 
in the neighbourhood of Inverness.” Near this remarkable cup 
are two plain cups, and numerous small indistinct cups; and ata 
few feet away fragments of a different arrangement can be traced 
composed of sets of one large and two small cups, and of ordinary 
single cups and rings, and also of rings of cups, like those above 
described, surrounding a central cup.* 
* While preparing this I hear to-day (14th September, 1887) of the 
discovery of yet more and more peculiar petroglyphs on the same piece of 
rock at High Banks by Mr Hornel and Mr Thompson. 
