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The lower cups are circular, and vary from two to three inches and a half 

 in diameter.* Fig. 1 9 is a copy of Wagener's sketch of this rock. 



I was totally in the dark as to the occurrence of cup-stones in Austria 

 until my esteemed correspondent, Dr. M. Much, of Vienna, favored me with 

 a full reply to a letter of inquiry addressed to him. Though cup-stones 

 have thus far been mentioned only in a transient manner in the publications 

 of the Anthropological Society of Vienna, they are, nevertheless, by no 

 means uncommon in Austria, more especially in Bohemia and in that part 

 of the empire where the three provinces, Bohemia, Moravia, and Lower 

 Austria border upon each other. In this district the soil is often covered 

 with rounded granite blocks, some of Avhich are cupped like the boulders 

 of Switzerland and Northern Europe. The sketches of Bohemian cup- 

 stones sent to me by Dr. Much show rather large cups, either isolated or in 

 groups, and frequently connected by grooves. "These are only hasty 

 sketches," he says, " and, moreover, not based upon personal observation, 

 but conmiunicated to mo by others. Absolute correctness cannot be claimed 

 for them. At any rate, however, they prove the existence of cup-stones in 

 Austria ; and I am of opinion that they are not at all rare in Bohemia, in 

 the northwestern part of Austria, and in Northern Upper Austria. Those 

 which I have seen on the Vitusberg and Stolzenberg, both in the neighbor- 

 hood of Eggenburg, occurred in a region characterized by prehistoric set- 

 tlements and places of sacrifice ; yet I am not prepared to state whether 

 these are to be referred to the age of polished stone or to a later period, 

 though the latter appears to me more probable." 



DENMARK. 



My statements relative to primitive lapidariau sculptures in Denmark, 

 called Hellenstninger in that country, are almost exclusively taken from an 

 article by Dr. Henry Petersen, published in the "Mi^moires" of the Royal 

 Society of Northern Antiquaries.f 



*Wageiicr: Haudbuch, etc.; S. 755. 



t Potcrsen : Notice 8iir Ics Pienes Sculpt^es du Danemaik, iu : Mdmoires do la Soci<itcS Eoyalo des 

 Antiquaires du Nord; Copenbague, 1«77, p. 330-342. 



