holmes: pre-historic remains of rombalds moor. 299 
from bygone ages. For similarity to particular figures upon various 
stones, apparently exceptional, just take the general plate of British 
Barrows near Stonehenge, given p. 543 in Fosbrooke's Antiquities, 
1843; and the similar plate of forts, earthworks, tumuli, circles, and 
camps, p. 557, and outline them upon stone, when every feature of 
the figuring given by Sir James Y. Simpson in his work may be seen, 
only often plainer for comparison upon paper. 
This stone marking would be the way they would do them, and 
they could do no other, or at least in no better way. That in other 
times, with a country so sparce of inhabitants and difficult to track 
through, there would be a need of guide posts is evident, and there 
could be no plainer or simpler way of direction at the time, than to 
figure places according to these peculiarities and relations to each 
other in roads and ways. The subject — cup, ring, oval, or serpentine 
forms — 'Say of symbol worship, or supersition, being inscribed upon 
stones, serving its purpose, would be naturally followed by similar 
incisions to indicate other purposes than such worship, and hence 
stone marking would become common for all purposes for which it 
could be used. But where the purposes varied the signs would be 
local. We thus find that the simplest form of nature worship, is the 
most extensive, in fact everywhere where men have felt the influence 
of nature and the desire to worship. But whether the advanced and 
more complex figurings be charts, ground plans or not, they are much 
more circumscribed in extent and much more confined to special 
localities. 
Upon Rombalds Moor we have two specialties, the ladder or 
step-like forms, leading up to cups or rings, and the fylfot form upon 
the Addingham side ridges. Upon the hypothesis that the stone 
marking upon Panorama rocks are the charts of a district, and the 
representation of things, I should for illustration refer to the arched 
circular mounds of Algeria, pp. 398-9, 400-1-2 of Ferguson's R. S. 
Monuments ; and to those in India, pp. 490-1 of the same work. The 
New Zealand bure, or temple, could not be figured better upon stone 
than the two, three, or four ringed cups, with the well marked steps 
up to them, seven in number, upon twelve of the romantic rocks of 
