306 HOLME<: PRE-HISTORTO REMAINS OF ROMBALDS MOOR. 
series of slabs and rock-cut stones, which, Mr. Fison says, are the 
most beautiful of any yet discovered. Mr. Fison further notices that 
the arrangement of the surrounding stones, one of which may be a 
rocking stone, suggests the idea of an ancient enclosure ; and he 
states that there he found two or three flint flakes. Mr. Allan 
states that the Panorama rocks, 800 feet above the sea, com- 
mand a very magnificent view over Wharf edale. " Here there 
appears to be a rude inclosure, formed by a loose wall of low stones, 
within which are three of the finest sculptured stones of Ilkley. They 
lay almost in a straight line B. and W., the second being about five 
feet from the first, and the third 100 feet further. The first stone 
placed horizontally near the present level, is well preserved, being 
covered by the turf until recently. It measures 10 feet by 7. The 
sculptures consist of 35 cups, 18 of which are surrounded by concen- 
tric rings, varying from one to five (query six) in number. The 
most remarkable feature in the design is the very curious ladder-like 
arrangement of lines by which certain of the rings are intersected 
and joined together. I do not think that this peculiar type of carv- 
ing occurs anywhere else besides Ilkley." Place these beside the 
Bare figured upon page 222 of " Fiji and the Fijians " and the sig- 
nificance of the figuring as a chart or plan will be seen at once. 
JohnS. Phene, Esq., F.G.S., F.R.G.S., &c., a distinguished traveller 
and expert in antiquarian researches, tumuli and mounds, on a visit 
in 1873, said at once, upon seeing the figuring of the circles and 
ladder shapes of the Panorama stones, that they were typical repre- 
sentatives or plans of many of the circled tumuli, and he had often 
seen in India steps intended, and, indeed essential, to reach- 
ing the sacred tops. Tumuli circles, such as figured from pages 
398 to 431 in Ferguson's rude stone monuments of India, could only 
be figured on stone in the way these Ilkley sculptures are. This 
stone is one of the most curious and interesting, yet it bears no 
feasible hypothesis except that of a chart or ground plan, thus con- 
sidered it is significant and singularly indicative and explanatory. 
The second stone, 15 feet by 12, has a piece of the surface 
shelved off, measuring 6 feet by 4, the whole covered by cups and 
rings, many cups having no rings ; several with one, and one with 
