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monument, is situated near a Druidical temple called 

 the Hurlers. Crosses of this shape abound in Corn- 

 wall. One has been found in Burian churchyard, 

 and another in CaUino^ton churchyard, bearing rude 

 sculptures of the crucifixion ; others have been found 

 in the county with holes perforated near the top, and 

 some with various ornaments on the shafts. 



The Hurlers lie very near to the Cheesewring, 

 and consisted of three circles of stones, from three 

 feet to six feet above the earth : many of them have 

 been taken away, and many others have fallen. At 

 some distance from the Hurlers, and near a spring 

 of water, are two upright stones, which probably 

 had some connexion with the circles. A full account 

 of the supposed design of these circles has been 

 already given in the Museum, in a paper on the 

 Antiquities of Dartmoor, which may be referred to at 

 pages 22, 65, and 101), of Volume iv. 



About half a mile west of St. Cleer is a dilapidated 

 monument, which we cannot describe better than 

 in the words of Borlase : — 



" In the parish of St. Cleer, about 200 paces to 

 the eastward of Redgate, are two monumental 

 stones, which seem to me parts of two different 

 crosses, for they have no such relation to each other 

 as to make one conclude that they ever contributed 

 to form one monument of that kind. 



" One of them is like the spill of a cross, seven 

 feet six inches high, above ground, two feet six 

 inches wide, in the under part, but in the above two 

 feet, and one foot thick. One side of the shaft is 

 adorned with some diaper work, consisting of little 

 asterisks of two inches diameter, dispersed in the 

 quincunx manner ; the lower or pedestal part is 

 somewhat thicker, but has no ornament. In the top 

 of this stone there is part of a mortice, which, doubt- 

 less, had some tenon fitted to, and fixed in it, in 

 such shape as to form a cioss ; but the making this 

 mortice seems to have shattered the stone, for part 

 of the shaft, is cloven off, and not to be found, |rom 



