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IN the description of the Agglestone “on the old moor of Studland, near the north shore of the Island of Purbeck,” given in Warne's “Ancient Dorset,” allusion is made to superficial cavities or hollows in this stone, and in stones in Yorkshire and Lancashire. In some cases “the cavities consist of holes about an inch and a half broad and of the same depth drilled into the stone.” Mitchell1 gives illustrations of the stones with cup-shaped markings described by Sir James Simpson in his work on “Archaic Sculptures.”
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SWANTON, E. Cavities in Stones. Nature 91, 59 (1913). https://doi.org/10.1038/091059a0
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