1891.] Cup-Stones Near Old Fort Ransom. 459 
Fics. 8, 8, 8, 8.—Are four long grooves with odd-shaped ends. 
These grooves are only about one-eighth of an inch in depth, 
while the ends are from one to one-and-a-half inches in depth. 
Cups (not numbered).—The cups or circular depressions are from 
about one-half-inch to nearly two inches in diameter, and one 
inch to one-quarter of an inch in depth. Some are perfect circles, 
. while others are oblong in outline. There are thirty-four single 
cups and twenty-five cups that are connected with or intersected 
by grooves, making a total of fifty-nine positive cups, without 
considering the terminals of the four long grooves and others — 
that are more doubtful. Where grooves intersect the cups an 
arbitrary line has been drawn on the illustration, in order to 
separate them and to more fully demonstrate the character of the 
designs. In every instance where this has been done the cups 
are well defined, but yet they cannot otherwise be fully shown on 
a tracing giving only surface outlines. 
Within a radius of four hundred feet from the spring there are 
thirteen incised boulders of various sizes and shapes, the one here 
described being the largest and finest of the group. The pictures, 
etc., on five of the best ones were copied; the others having only 
slight grooves and a few cups were not. 
On the bluffs on both sides of the ravine there are a number of 
ancient mounds of the mound-building period, one of which is 
located on the west side immediately above the spring. 
There are other boulders at various places in the northwest on 
which these cup-like depressions occur, and they are also occa- 
sionally found on the face of perpendicular ledges and on the 
walls of caves, but in nearly every instance there are other incised 
figures on the same surface. It may be further stated that the 
cup-cavities as shown at the terminals of Fig. 5 of the illustration 
Now given are also seen in connection with incised figures on rocks 
at these other localities referred to. 
The cup-stones (large boulders or rocks) are not to be con- 
9 Pl p “i —* in or etc., Edin- 
reais 2, of his sie sl Sculpturings upo no si 
and Sweden. Similar figures also on early British coins prior to iptabolicie’ s 
time ( -D. 40), and on the French-Keltic coins of moulded bronze. See Plates LIII. and 
LV. of Waring’s “ Stone Monuments,” etc., London, 1870. 
