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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, 83, 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. 4 
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 Pl. 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 but 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 53 in. and 4 in. in diameter, and 3} in. and 2 in. 
deep. (b) 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-shaped, about 24 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 
