The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

CUP MARKINGS IN BRITAIN & TROY 237

These Cup-markings have long been the subject of many varied surmises, admittedly or patently improbable ; and especially so the latest theory that they are merely “ decorations. ’”?

Fic. 30.—Prehistoric ‘‘ Cup-markings ’ on Monuments in British Isles.

a. Stone in chambered barrow at Clava, Inverness-shire. S.A.S.,

Pl. 10, 4. b. Another stone in same. S.A-S., Pl. to, 3. Stone in underground *‘ house’’ at Ruthven, Forfarshire. $S.A.S.,

Pl. 25, 3

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d. Standing stone at Ballymenach, Argyle-shire. S.A.S., Pl. LS; 2. e. Another stone at same. S.A.S., Pl. 17, 3f. ‘‘Caiy’”’ stone, 11 ft. high, near “ British camp ™ and sea, Coniston,

near Edinburgh. S$.A.S., Pl. 17, Tf.

g, Jedburgh stone. S.A.S., Pl. 16, 1.

hk. Laws, Forfarshire. S.A-S., Pl. 12, 5.

As I observed that many of the ancient Briton pre-Roman coins also were studded with circles, single and concentric, in groups or clusters (see Figs. in next Chapter), which generally resembled the prehistoric “ cup-markings ’ ; and that some of the ancient Greco-Phcenician coins of Cilicia and Syrio-Pheenicia contained analogous groups of circles associated with the same divinities as in the Briton coins, and that many of the “ whorls’’ of terva-cotta dug up from the vuins of Ancient Troy by Schliemann, and which I had found were amulets, also contained numerous depressed cup-marks like the British, in definite groups and associated with the solar Swastika or Sun Crosses, and containing Sumerian writing hitherto unobserved and explanatory of the “ cups” and connecting the British cuwp-markings with the Trojans and so confirming the British Chronicle tradition, 1 therefore

? Review of theories in S.A.S., 92, etc. ~ = Windle, W.P.E., 123- 4.