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Indeed most of them have evidence of other stones being placed in 
circles round them. One, near Backstone Beck, characteristic but 
not very prominent stone, has a wall distinctly traceable all round 
it, at a distance of many feet from the cup and centre stones. 
There is generally a good look out from the top of the principal 
stones. Mr. Romily Allen numbers twenty-five only, while Mr. 
Fison says there are at least forty that he has seen. The most east- 
ward are in a line from Woofa Bank to the Skirts " tumuli ; and 
those most western are the sepulchre stones upon Addingham Moor. 
Taking them from east to west, the following may be given as a 
rough sketch or description of the principle of the cup and ring and 
chart figurings, modified from the papers of Messrs. Allan, Fison, 
and others. " Near to the pancake ridges there is a large ark-like 
block of sandstone, standing detached. It measures east to west 16 
feet, by 8 feet 6 inches broad, and 5 feet 6 inches in height. The top 
is ridged houselike north and south, and is full of carvings upon each 
side. There are at least between forty and fifty cup hollows, and at 
least nine are surrounded by single rings or circles, having no con- 
necting grooves." Castings of the top are in the Leeds Philosophical 
Museum. This is one of the stones shewing evidence of having been 
surrounded by other independent blocks; of which it is the principal 
or centre. 
About a quarter-of-a-mile below this stone, north-west, we have 
a high mass of rock, called the Cow, from which a large block has 
fallen called the Calf . At the foot of the Cow the surface of the 
stone is relatively smooth, and the hill falling abruptly leaves these 
as clifi", the beds of which were being quarried for building purposes 
to the west. Up to 1886 the turf had grown from the moor to the 
edge of the cliff ridges, and this being bared to extend the quarry, a 
visitor at Benrhydding, as before said, saw markings upon the top of 
the bed as though fresh cut. The surface of the stone is glacially 
smoothed, running south to north. Mr. Allen gives a cut, in part i., 
vol. 35, of the Journal of the British Archaeological Association, in 
which he says: "that the design cut upon the smooth surface consists 
of twenty-five cups of various sizes, from one to six inches in diameter. 
