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[CHAP. XX.
and the adjacent islands, consists of cup-like vessels formed of stone, of various degrees of hardness, and usually provided with a small projecting handle.
Fig. 362, borrowed from the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland,[1] will serve to show their general character. Of the two cups here engraved, one was found near a megalithic circle at Crookmore, Tullynessle, Aberdeenshire, and the other in another part of Scotland. The material is described as a soft calcareous stone. One of steatite or "pot-stone," with a large unpierced handle, was found in a cairn at Drumkesk,[2] near Aboyne, Aberdeenshire; and two others, one with the handle projecting from the side, and the other with a long straight handle, at Strathdon[3] in the same county. Two others, one of them of micaceous sandstone, ornamented with a band of rudely-cut projecting knobs, and the other with incised lines in zigzag herring-bone patterns, were dug out of a large cairn on Knockargity,[4] and others at Cromar,[5] also in Aberdeenshire. One ornamented in a similar manner was found at Needless,[6] Perth. Others have been found in cairns in Banffshire,[7] Morayshire,[8] and Sutherlandshire,[9] the engraving of the last of which is here reproduced as Fig. 363. It is 612 inches in diameter. They have also been found in brochs, in Caithness,[10] Shetland,[11] and in a "fort" in Forfarshire.[12] They have likewise been discovered under various circumstances in Aberdeenshire,[13] at Balmoral,[14] and in Forfarshire,[15] Perthshire,[16] and the Isle of Skye,[17] as well as in the Isle of Man.[18]
- ↑ Vol. i. p. 117. Wilson's "Preh. Ann. of Scot.," vol. i. p. 207.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant., 2nd S., vol. iii. p. 266.
- ↑ Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., vol. v. pp. 30, 83.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. vi. p. 89.
- ↑ "Cat. Arch. Inst. Mus. Ed.," p. 20.
- ↑ Proc. S. A. S., vol. xxii. p. 111.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. i. p. 138.
- ↑ "Cat. A. I. Mus. Ed.," p. 18. P. S. A. S., vol. i. p. 267.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xxvi. p. 186.
- ↑ Arch. Scot., vol. iii. app. 50.
- ↑ Arch. Scot., vol. iii. app. 89.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. ii. pp. 64, 71.
- ↑ P. S. A. S., vol. vii. p. 320.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. v. p. 82.
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. vi. p. 12.
- ↑ Ibid., vol. i. p. 180.
- ↑ Arch. Journ., vol. xiii. p. 104. "Cat. A. I. Mus. Ed.," p 47. P. S. A. S., vol. ii. p. 330. Arch. Camb., 3rd S., vol. xi. p. 429.