Sometimes slabs of stone sculptured with cup-marks, cups and rings, and spirals, have been found associated with Bronze Age burials, although not forming parts of a cist. One of the most remarkable discoveries of this kind was made at Old Parks,[86] near Kirk Oswald, Cumberland. In 1894 a barrow composed of loose stones, 80 feet in diameter and 4 feet high, was opened by the late Chancellor R. S. Ferguson, F.S.A., and when the mound was removed a row of five slabs fixed upright in the ground was disclosed. The stones were in a line pointing north and south, cutting the site of the mound into two halves, and three of them are sculptured with spirals. As many as thirty-two deposits of burnt bones were found in holes scooped out of the natural surface of the ground, together with two ornamented urns of incense-cup form, fragments of several other urns, and a necklace of cannel-coal beads. [84] _Ibid._, vol. vi., _Appendix_, p. 27. [85] _Ibid._, vol. xxix., p. 190. [86] _Cumb. and West. Ant. Soc. Trans._, vol. xiii., p. 389. A slab of stone sculptured with spirals and concentric circles was found in 1883 on Lilburn Hill[87] Farm near Wooler, Northumberland, associated with seven deposits of burnt bones buried in small circular pits. Stones sculptured with cups, or cups and rings, have been found either as cover-stones of urns or associated with burials in round barrows at the following places:— NORTHUMBERLAND. Ingoe. Black Hedon. Kirk Whelpington. CUMBERLAND. Maughanby. YORKSHIRE. Kilburn. Ayton Moor. Claughton Moor. Wykeham Moor. DERBYSHIRE. Elkstone. Sheen. STAFFORDSHIRE. Stanton. DORSETSHIRE. Came Down. SUTHERLANDSHIRE. Dornoch Links. ABERDEENSHIRE. Greenloan, Cabrach. A link between the art of the Bronze Age in Britain and the art of Mycenæ is afforded by a rock-sculpture at Ilkley,[88] Yorkshire, which takes the form of a curved swastika. It belongs to a peculiar class of patterns composed of winding bands and small bosses or dots, of which there are numerous examples in the Scandinavian[89] and Mycenæan[90] metalwork. Perhaps some of the Late-Celtic designs, in which the arrangement of the long sweeping =S-= and =C-=shaped curves is governed by the position of circular bosses they connect, may be descended from the winding-band patterns of the Mycenæan period. For instance, the designs on the enamelled handles of the bowl found at Barlaston, Staffordshire, and on the Ilkley rock-sculpture have obvious points in common, both being founded on the curved swastika. [87] _Archæol. Æliana_, ser. 2, vol. x., p. 220. [88] _Jour. Brit. Archæol. Assoc._, vol. xxxv., p. 18. [89] A. P. Madsen’s _Antiquités préhistoriques du Danemark_. [90] Schlieman’s _Mycenæ_, pp. 166, 167, 169, 264, and 265.