22 CUP-SHAPED AND OTHER LAPIDAEIAN SCULPTURES. 



Yet, according to Professor Desor (page 12), a rock exhibiting a number of 

 simple cups and. one cup surrounded by two circles was formerly seen, near 

 the village of Mels, in the Canton of Saint Gall. Unfortunately, this rock 

 has been destroyed. This isolated case, however, is in so far of interest, 

 as it exemplifies the transition from the simpler and earlier ciii3-type to a 

 somewhat more developed form. 



Dr. Keller states that smaller cupped stones have been found in the 

 Lake of Neuchatel, at Corcelettes, at Font, above Estavayer, and at the 

 lake-dwelling of Cortaillod, just opposite the shore, almost always in places 

 which are dry at low water. 



"The implements met with in the neighborhood of these hollow stones," 

 lie continues, "belong in general to the bronze age. The cups vary from 

 three to ten inches in diameter; they are seldom more than an inch in depth. 

 They are made on the surface of the stone without any kind of order, ex- 

 cept that when they are three in number, they form, as it were, the points 

 of an equilateral triangle."* Though he alludes on the same page to a 

 relation between these stones and the large cup-bearing boulders of Switz- 

 erland, he seems to have afterward changed his view, and to regard the 

 former as utensils designed for some domestic purpose, perhaps for grinding 

 cereals or other substances (Desor, page 8). This was Professor Troyon's 

 original opinion.f 



GERMANY AND AUSTRIA. 



As far as I could learn, no cup-stones have yet been discovered in 

 Southern Germany, but it hardly admits of any doubt that they will be 

 found in that district, when diligent search is made for them. Their occur- 

 rence in North Germany, however, is well established. Mr. C. Jessen 

 describes in the "Zeitschrift fiir Ethnologie" (Vol. IV, 1872, p. 223) a real 

 cup-stone discovered by him not far .from Eckeruforde (Schleswig), and to 



* Keller : Lake-Dwellings, etc., Vol. I, p. 460. Figs. 12 and 13, on Plate XXXIX of the same work 

 represent two of these cupped stones, one with three, the other with four cavities; but their size is not 

 indicated, either on the iilate or in the text. 



t " D'autres iiierres portent de petits bassins, do 2 a a i>ouccs de diamfetre sur 5 a 8 lignes do pro. 

 foudeiir, destinc^s sans douf o a broycr de.s grains, mais dont I'nsage a pu 6tre fort varid." — Troi/on : Habi- 

 tations Lacustres, etc., p. ItS.' 



