Mr. George Tate on Ancient Sculptured Bocks, 8fc, 155 



found a quern made of porphyry, a stone trough, similar in 

 appearance to the pot querns found in Ireland, and three 

 round stone balls artificially formed, about 3 inches in 

 diameter, which it has been supposed were used for some 

 game. More distinctive are the camps which I found on the 

 south side of the hill ; no less than five are within a distance 

 of a quarter to half-a-mile ; the nearest is a large double 

 camp ; the others are very simple in form, being circular 

 and formed of a single rampart of stone, earth, and sods ; 

 the rampier of the Fowberry Camp, which is small, has 

 a thickness of 9 feet. Near to one of these camps are 

 traces of several hut circles, shewing that there had been one 

 or more ancient British villages on the slope of the hill. 



Chatton Law. 



Four miles to the east by north of Whitsunbank, rises 

 Chatton Law to the height of 603 feet above the sea level, 

 with a large fiat area on the top. At the west extremity, 

 there is an ancient British camp — small and circular, 

 containing about half-an-acre, and defended by three 

 rampiers. The sandstone rock juts out within this camp, 

 and in several places along the ridge of the hill. Mr. Henry 

 MacLauchland in 1859, discovered here inscribed stones. 



One is within the camp — six figures of the common type 

 are traceable, but much of this rock has been quarried 

 away. A row of wedge holes might be mistaken for archaic 

 marks. A perspective view is given of this stone — Plate 

 IX., fig. 3. 



About 200 yards eastward of the camp, a large area of the 

 fine grained slaty sandstone was formerly covered with sculp- 

 tures — Plate X.,Jigs. 1, 2, 3, 4. In Jig. 1 the inscriptions 

 are remarkable for their great size and geometrical forms; 

 one is 36 inches in diameter, and composed of seven con- 

 centric rings with a peculiar curved elevation or crown at 

 the top. From its central hollow, issues a long wavy groove 

 which had linked together other forms now obliterated ; one 

 however, still remains of four concentric circles attached to 

 the principal figure, and also joined to the groove by a 

 branch. Those who fancy that these inscriptions symbolize 

 the progress of life, might imagine the smaller circles to 

 be germinations from the larger ; similarly as life among 

 zoophytes is generated by buds or gemmules issuing from the 

 old parents. Here, also, there is a diametric groove. 



