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to be continually causing damage to our boundary platforms. Subsequent 
examination shewed these marks on the sides of the boulders also (Pl. 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. Butas 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 2 
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 arough 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.t 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, 1877. ‘ 
+ These are shewn in the paper on the Kumaon markings, See Journal B, A, S., 
January, 1877. 
