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analogous figure approaches to a heart shape. Imaginative 

 speculators, might in these figures find counienance to the 

 notion of the inscriptions being plans of camps ; for here 

 we could fancy there were camps with one and three 

 rampiers — a gateway through them — hut dwellings scattered 

 over the area enclosed, and a hollow way leading out of the 

 camp. The shape however, of the imaginary camp does not 

 correspond with those of the period. So different are these 

 figures from other inscriptions, that they might have been 

 referred to a diiferent age and people ; but their association 

 with other figures of the normal types, shews their common 

 origin. Three other groups of figures, curved and of irregu- 

 lar forms, are on the scalp of the same rock, but at some 

 distance from each other — Plate VI., jigs. 2, 3, 4. Twenty- 

 four figures are traceable on these stones. 



To the northward of the camp less than half-a-mile, and 

 less than that distance eastward of Doddington, inscriptions 

 appear on a grey gritty sandstone cropping out midway up 

 the hill. On this rock two figures of the common type are 

 traceable — Plate III., jig 1. 



Several inscriptions, but much obliterated, were found by 

 Mr. Charles Rea, scattered over the surface of another rock 

 about 200 yards further eastward. These however, are not 

 figured. 



High up on the crest of the hill, thirteen figures chiefly 

 of typical forms are traceable on another rock. Some are 

 united by a wavy groove — Plate III., jig. 2. 



On the same high moor-land, about a quarter of a mile 

 east of the Dod Law Camp, there are two groups of large 

 circles, one 21 inches, and the other 2 feet 5 inches in 

 diameter — Plate IV., fig. 2. The largest gi-oup has three 

 incomplete concentric circles a central cup, a radial groove, 

 and another short groove from one side of the outer circle ; 

 from the top of the outer circle, another short groove leads 

 to a large round hollow. A considerable surface of rock, 

 which is tolerably flat but with a gentle eastern slope, is 

 laid bare, and there are traces of other figures. 



Gled Law. — On Gled Law, a platform of rock breaking 

 out of the south-west escarpment of Dod Law, and ranging 

 from north-west to south-east, seven groups of inscriptions 

 have recently been discovered. In this assemblage of sculp- 

 tures, there are traceable thirty-six figures, mostly typical 

 forms ; yet in some cases, so varied and combined, as to pre- 

 sent new figures. Plate V. represents these inscriptions. 



