Mr. George Tate on Ancient Sculptured Rocks, 8fc. 165 



and in another, there was evidence of two different modes of 

 burial; in the upper or later interment, was an unburnt body 

 with an urn of the common type ; but the earlier and lower, 

 contained burnt bones along with an urn of dark pottery, 

 well baked, spherical at the bottom, and ornamented with, 

 shallow flutings — a sepulchral vessel of a new type. Along 

 the hill sides skirting the valley, several other cist-vaens 

 have from time to time been exposed ; and in these, the 

 bodies were unburnt — the urns of the same character as those 

 in Northumberland, some being accompanied with a bronze 

 dagger.* 



On turning again to England, we find one group of con- 

 centric circles with a central hollow on "Long Meg," a pillar 

 standing outside of a stone circle near Penrith, known by the 

 name of " Long Meg and her daughters." Sir Gardner 

 Wilkinson states, in a paper on the Rock -basins in Dartmoor, 

 that he first observed this figure in ISSS.f Mr. Stuart in 

 1858, noticed a single circle around a cup, on a stone pillar 

 near Shap.J 



On the moors near Pickering in Yorkshire, where many 

 ancient British remains have been noticed, several rocks 

 have been found inscribed with figures identical with those 

 in Northumberland ; some groups of concentric circles are 

 from two to three feet in diameter, and have both the central 

 cup and radial groove. 



Incised concentric circles have been found under peculiar 

 circumstances near to Dorchester. A tumulus was opened 

 there, and at the depth of three feet, a rough unhewn stone 

 was found with a series of incised concentric circles ; below 

 this stone was a mass of flints, six or seven feet in thickness, 

 which lay upon another stone incised with similar circles ; 

 and this under stone covered another mass of flints, among 

 which were the fragments of a coarse urn ; and below this 

 again, were the remains of six human skeletons, with bits of 

 charcoal and an urn.§ 



• For information regarding this interesting locality I am especially indebted 

 to Professor Simpson and the Rev. Mr. Greenwell. I give, however, only a 

 condensed vievc, as from Professor Simpson there may be expected a memoir 

 on the inscriptions, and from the Rev. Wm. Greenwell an account of his ex- 

 plorations. 



f Journal of the British Archaeological Association, June, 1864. 



J I am indebted to Mr. Stuart for other information regarding the Scottish 



stones. 



§ Journal of the Archaeological Association, vol. iii,, p. 51, 



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