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ANNUAL REPORT SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, 1940 



THE STONES AT THE SOUTHEAST AND NORTHEAST OF THE CIROLE 



These two unwrought stones stand just inside the Ditch, and their 

 position is such as to suggest that some significance was attached to 

 the points at which they stand. Farther round the circle of Aubrey 

 Holes to the southward from the southeast stone there is a circular 

 earthwork described as the "South Barrow." A similar earthwork 



appears on the north of the northwest stone. A line between the two 

 stones passes directly through the center of the circle. In the same 

 way a line between the centers of the two earthworks does the same 

 thing. In addition to this, the distance between each stone and earth- 



