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Some #lotes on Arbor Low. 
By Rev. J. CHARLES Cox. 
[Read to the Society at Arbor Low, on August gth, 1883.) 
aIRBOR LOW was first described with any degree of 
4| detail, almost a century ago, by that eminent Derby- 
shire antiquary, Dr. Pegge, in a paper read before the 
Society of Antiquaries on May 29th, 1783, which was 
entitled “ A Disquisition on the Lows or Barrows in the Peak of 
Derbyshire, particularly that capital British Monument called 
Arbelows.” * The article is illustrated by a plan, sections, and 
perspective view of the circle. The following are the actual 
details of the writer’s description of what he terms “ the temple” 
as distinguished from the adjoining lows or barrows :— 
“It is surrounded with a great circular rampire, measuring by 
an inward slope seven yards high, and by the outward five. The 
fosse, which is within, and not on the outside of the rampire, is 
five yards over in the bottom. ‘The inclosed area is a circular 
flat of fifty-eight yards diameter, and has been encompassed by 
thirty-two very large stones, or more, of limestone, or grey marble, 
placed circularly. The stones formerly stood on end, two and 
two together, which is very particular, and different from any other 
stone circle now known; however, they all lie flat now, and are 
* Archeologia, Vol. viii., pp. 131—-148. 
