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two rings. As indicative of a barbarian village, or settlement, 
it is significant ; otherwise we have no explanation to give. It has 
been exposed, and so is much weather worn. The third stone, 10 
feet 9, by 7 to 8 feet, is slightly inclined to the north, has upon it 
twenty seven cups, fourteen of which have concentric rings, and four 
having two circles. It is a good deal worn, but shows in one or two 
instances, the grooves or ladder like steps so clearly marked upon 
the first or most eastward stone. 
About a mile to the west of the Panorama rocks, on the very 
edge of the cliff forming the northern ridge of Addingham high moor, 
overlooking the Wharfe, is a large block of gritstone in situ, measu- 
ring 19 feet long, by 7 wide, and 4 feet 6 inches thick. At the West 
end are two rock basins, 1 foot 3 inches across, and at the other 
facing South, the very unusual figure of the fylfot, or swartica 
emblem, is clearly and deeply carved horizontally. This, Mr. Allan, 
(and I agree with him,) considers to be the most interesting of all 
the Ilkley sculptures. Except the similar, but less clearly cut figure 
upon the rock near Grainings head, (p 27) no other marking identical 
has been made known, except one carving found at Tossene, on the 
coast of Sweden, north of Gottenburg. 
The significance and mystery of the swartica or fyltot we have 
before instanced, ranging from the foot of Buddha to Greek spindle 
whorls, and to the early Christian martyrs catacomb dresses, contem- 
porary with similarly figured Roman Altars, both in England and 
Italy. But these three Ilkley carvings are explicable on a much less 
profound hypothesis. The fact is, the figure with its spots in cups 
constitutes a common school boy's puzzle play, showing how far rude 
men could build a wall which would exclude four poor men from 
the use of a well whose houses were nearer to it than was their own. 
However simple and ridiculous the latter solution may appear, it is 
equally a puzzle to account for figuring at Ilkley or Tossene as a 
puzzle, as to account for the fylfot been so widely figured in remote 
times as a sacred emblem, the facts are impossible to deny, and so 
we must for the present leave the puzzle. " The Addingham crag 
stone situated further west, is at the foot of the cliff ; measures 9 
feet 6 by 8 feet 6 inches broad, and stands detached about 4 feet in 
