98 SOME NOTES ON ARBOR LOW. 
some of them so much broken by their fall that it requires some 
attention in observing and numbering them; for the fragments 
are not only some bigger than others, as would necessarily happen, 
but sometimes lie at a small distance from the principal or larger 
piles to which they respectively belonged. However, that they 
stood in pairs at first is very obvious, and it is probable that they 
were brought, as there is no quarry nearer, from Fairdale, or 
Ricklow Dale, which is very near; for they are apparently the 
same sort of stone, but blanched by the weather. The two 
entrances into the temple, nine yards each, are nearly south and 
north, but inclining to the south-west and north-east, and, as was 
observed, the slight rampire from the other low comes up to 
the southern entrance. The entrances are level, being banks of 
earth across the fosse (the earth in these places having never been 
dug away), and they both of them had, on each hand, one of the 
stone pillars above-mentioned, between which you entered into 
the grand area. I call them pillars now, though they are flat 
stones, because, as has been already noted, they stood on end,, 
and were so lofty. In the area lies one very large stone, four 
yards one foot long, two yards two feet wide, perhaps not less than 
three or four ton weight. There is another to the north of it, 
and a third on the east side, which appears to have been much 
broken. If ever there was a fourth on the west side it is now 
gone.” JI make no apology for thus quoting at length from 
Dr. Pegge’s description, as it is interesting for us to note, now we 
are on the spot, what degree of deterioration and change this 
monument has suffered in a century. 
Dr. Pegge then proceeds to argue as to what nation this great 
structure belonged. British, Roman, Saxon, or Danish? And 
he rightly decides that it is British. In arguing, in the second 
place, as to the object of such a structure, he returns at some 
jength to his contention of the original uprightness of these stones. 
His conjectures on this point are highly probable, though they 
have since been combatted, and he adduces one piece of evidence 
—namely, that one William Normanshaw, then about sixty years 
did, testified that some of the stones were standing in his memory, 
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