300 HOLMES: PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS OF ROMBALDS MOOR. 
Ilkley. Of these bures we are informed, p. 221, Fiji and the Fijians, 
that nearly every town has one bure or more, many of which are well 
built, no pains being spared upon their erection or finish, which is 
generally placed upon a raised foundation, thrown up to the height 
of from three to twenty feet, in steps or rises, with dry rubble work of 
stone. The ascent is by a thick plank, having its upper face cut 
into notched steps. See cut p. 222, Fiji and Fijians, London, 1858. 
As proof, and positive as such proof can be made of two propositions, 
we cannot do better than place the cuts figured at pp. 220 and 222, 
along with the letterpress explanations. 
"Rude consecrated stones are to be seen near Vuna, where offer- 
ings of food are sometimes made ; another stands on a reef near 
Nalow, to which the natives came ; and one near Thokova, Ne 
Titi, Levu, named Lovekaveka, is regarded as the abode of a goddess 
for whom food is prepared." This, as seen in the engraving, is like a 
round blank mile stone, slightly inclined, and ha"vang a liku tied 
round the middle. The shrine of 0. Resoun is a large stone; he has 
also two large stones for wives." " Nearly every town has one or 
more bures, &c. Years ago I tried, without success, to obtain speci- 
fic information upon these stones. Missionaries would do well, both 
for their own work and the extension of scientific ethnography, to 
ascertain and register carefully what the living natives think these 
things to be, as well as to obtain all possible knowledge of what they 
have been thought of and held. As it is, we cannot but see that 
they are phallic, and connected with phallic rites. We see that one 
stone has three well defined cup and ring figurings upon it, associated 
with their special rites and objects, and so far bears out our surmise 
of that form of " cup and ring marking." The cut of the bure or 
temple in Fiji gives the step-like figuring we see so clearly marked 
in the Panorama stones instanced on Rombalds Moor. 
It is at present, perhaps, too much to expect that we may now 
account for or explain all that is peculiar in the rock markings, but 
it is only fair to the subject to explain all possible. Lastly, we 
will consider the two fylfot marked rocks of Ilkley, of which only one 
other illustration is known. The fylfot, or crux grammata, form is 
