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Some two hundred yards to the south-west of this ridge of 
rocks at High Banks, we stand in the midst of the 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 Pl. V., Fig. 2). 
It contains a cup | in. in diameter, round this an incomplete 
circle 4 in. in diameter, round this a second incomplete circle 
64 in. wide, and lastly, an are of above the third 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 the 
ordinary cup and ring type. 
The next rock-surface visited 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 this petro- 
glyph is shown on Pl. V., Fig. 1. It is rather too vague to admit 
of an elaborate fac-simile 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 the cup in halves. There is also a simple cup, with 
a semi-circle above it, at the higher or south-east extremity 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 out- 
houses at Balmae, I found a very clear and prominent piece of 
cutting. (See Pl. 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 
