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which- he attributes, doubtless erroneously, the character of a stoue upon 

 which stone axes were ground. This block, which is figured in the "Zeit- 

 scln-ift" (Plate XIV), consists of granite, is five feet long, half as wide, and 

 exhibits upon its surface twenty-four ciips of unequal size. Miss J. Mestorf, 

 the accomplished custodian of the Archaeological Museum at Kiel (Hol- 

 stein), mentions, as the result of her careful examination of various records, 

 that sixteen cup-stones have been found in the duchies of Schleswig and 

 Holstein, of which five onh^ are still known to exist, the others being either 

 destroyed or no longer traceable. She refers to a specimen taken out of a 

 garden-wall in Schleswig, and preserved in the Museum of Kiel, upon which 

 four of the cups are joined by grooves, thus presenting the shape of a cross. 

 Another specimen in the same museum, which consists of white marble 

 and is only 7.5 centimeters in size, shows on both sides a number of dimin- 

 utive cups, resembling those seen on large stones and rocks. It was found 

 in a burial-urn from a cemetery pertaining to the early age of iron, near 

 Altona (Holstein), and is considered as an amulet. There is further men- 

 tioned a cupped stone near Albersdorf (Holstein), which formed one of the 

 three lid-stones of a cist covered by a mound of earth, and containing only 

 a fractured flint lance-head. On the upper side of the stone, which has not 

 been removed, are sculptured more than a hundred cups and a figure like a 

 wheel with four spokes — a design not uncommon in Denmark and the Scan- 

 dinavian countries, as will be seen in the sequel. Another stone, found in 

 a tumulus at Risby (Schleswig), shows a curious system of cups and con- 

 necting grooves, both rather shallow, to judge from a representation by Dr. 

 Henry Petei'sen.* This relic is now in the Museum of Copenhagen. A 

 stone found in a tumulus near Arrild (Schleswig) had cups sculptured on 

 one side, and on the other the word Fatur, in runic characters. This 

 remarkable piece of lapidarian sculpture was put out of sight by its last 

 owner, who used it in building the foundation of a barn. Five or six of 

 the cup-stones traced by Miss Mestorf occurred in or in connection with 

 burial-places.f 



* In : M^moircs de la Soci^t^ Royale des Antiquaires du Kord, 1877, p. .335. 



tJ. Mestorf: Ueber Schaleuste.iue. I., iu: Coirespoudonz-BUitt der Deutschen Anthropologischen 

 GesellscLaft, 1879, S. 3 :— Worsaae : Die Vorgiseliichte des Nordeus uach gleiclizeitigen Donkmiileni ; 

 ill's Deutsche libertragen von J. Mestorf; Hamburg, 1878, S. 41. 



Siuce the above was written, I have been favored with a letter from Miss Mestorf, dated April 3, 



