148 Mr. George Tate on Ancient Sculptured "Rocks, 8fc. 



It juts out from the hill side — an irregular mass — ridged and 

 broken on the surface, sloping more or less in all directions, 

 but chiefly towards the west ; the whole surface, which is 

 9 feet long by 7 feet broad, is crowded with figures, chiefly 

 of the ordinary type of concentric circles, some of which are 

 grouped into compound figures by grooves. Here there are 

 oval, horse-shoe, and pear-shaped figures. One form is very 

 peculiar; a circle around a cup, and with two hook-like 

 grooves from one side of the circle — Plate III., Jig. 4. 



Very rude are both the shape and workmanship of the 

 figures ; many of the incisions are shallow, still retaining 

 distinct marks of the blunt tools by which the rock had, with 

 little skill, been chipped away. Some of the hollows are 

 however, wide and deep. Thirty figures are traceable on 

 this stone. 



Harelaw. — Less than a mile to the north-west, is a range 

 of low rocks cropping out in the moors, called Harelaw Crags, 

 and extending nearly half-a-mile from south-east to north- 

 west. At intervals along this range, Mr. Charles Ilea of 

 Doddington, discovered several inscriptions which had been 

 covered over with turf. There are five groups of these in- 

 scriptions, and thirteen figures are traceable ; all are of the 

 common types ; but one is somewhat angular in the lower 

 part of the circles. These sculptures are nearly a mile north- 

 ward from the Ringses Camp. Three groups are figured in 

 Plate IV., Jigs. 1, 3, and 4. 



Horton. — Southward of Harelaw Crag about a mile, there 

 is a similar outbreak of rock, ranging from S.S.E. to N.N.W. 

 on the Horton grounds, on which are several inscriptions, 

 which also had been concealed by a covering of turf — Plate 

 I v.. Jigs. 5, 6, 7, and Plate XL, Jig. 4. Some of the figures 

 present new features ; one form of four concentric circles has 

 six cups within the inner circle, and two parallel curving 

 grooves issue from the second circle — Plate XI., Jig. 4. 



The stone, of which two views are given, one on Plate IV., 

 Jig. 5, and the other on Plate XL, Jig. 1, presents a new 

 character ; the former is a plan of the sculptures seen on the 

 upper surface of the stone -, the latter is a perspective view, 

 shewing, on its eastern face, which is 2| feet in height, a 

 row of round hollows running up the stone, the largest of 

 which is 2 inches in diameter and 1 inch in depth. Such 

 rows occur elsewhere, and will be again referred to. 



There are here five groups of incriptions, and in all sixteen 

 figures ; the locality is less than quarter of a mile eastward 



