1879.] in Central India. 15 



to be continually causing damage to our boundary platforms. Subsequent 

 examination shewed tbese marks on tbe sides of tbe boulders also (PI. V, 

 fig. 4), suggesting that they could not be used for the game in question. 

 About the same time I was fortunate enough to receive Sir James Simpson's 

 book, above alluded to, which established, without doubt, the exact similarity 

 between the marks on the Indian barrows and on the monolithic remains 

 which have been examined and described in England. 



Two classes of " cup-marks" the one large, the other small, have been 

 found, similar to those in the English barrows. But as yet I have not traced 

 on the barrows any of the concentric circles noticed by Sir James Simpson.* 

 They may, however, be yet brought to light together with perhaps other and 

 more striking particulars, linking these tumuli still more closely to the 

 remains . found at home. On Plate II, Fig. 1, a sketch taken from Sir 

 J. Simpson's book of a tumulus with the " cup-marks" on one of the stones 

 is given, and on Plate V will be found a sketch of a stone at Junapani 

 with the markings as I saw them some years ago. It will be seen, that, 

 with the exception of the stone chamber, the absence of which in the 

 Nagpur tombs has already been accounted for, there would be no difficulty 

 in mistaking the picture for a sketch of one of the Junapani barrows. 

 The " cup-markings" are all shallow, the depth of the cup being about \ 

 of an inch at the most, age probably having told on the carvings. 



In the present paper, I will not stop to discuss at any length the 

 significance of these marks. The chief point I am anxious here to esta- 

 blish is their resemblance to the markings found in the same class of 

 tumuli at home. It may, however, be noticed that the view generally 

 adopted at home is, that the " cup marks" are a rough sort of ornamenta- 

 tion, and that they have no signification whatsoever. Without venturing 

 an opinion regarding the object which the constructors of the barrows had 

 in carving these marks on the stones, I would repeat what I have said in 

 my paper on the Kumaon markings, that the arrangement of the cups is 

 peculiar and would seem to indicate some design beyond mere ornamenta- 

 tion. On no two stones are the marks similar. The combination of large 

 and small cups is striking (PL V, fig. 4). The permutations of the cups on 

 the stones already examined are very numerous. f The manner too, in 

 which the large cups are introduced, would seem to suggest that the combina- 

 tions of marks may have some meaning, which may, perhaps, yet be discovered 

 and explained. Those who are acquainted with the system of printing by the 

 electric telegraph, and the combination of long and short strokes in Morse 



* These have been found by me on the Kumaon. Rocks. See Bengal Asiatic 

 Society's Journal, January, 1 877. 



t These are shewn in the paper on the Kumaon markings. See Journal B. A. S., 

 January, 1877. 



