44 ON A CROMLECH FORMERLY STANDING ON RIBER HILL. 



one point only, so nicely that two or three men with a pole can 

 move it. It is 8 feet 6 inches high, and 47 feet in girth. On 

 the top is a large bason, 3 feet 1 1 inches in diameter (at a medium), 

 at the brim wider, and 3 feet deep. By the globular shape of this 

 upper stone, I guess that it has been rounded by art, at least ; if 

 it was not placed on the hollow surface of the rock it rests upon 

 by human force, which to me appears not unlikely.'' (p. 181.) 



[In July, 1866, I had a conversation with two old cottagers on Riber about 

 the missing Cromlech. Both of them, one aged 80 and the other 84, well 

 remembered the stones when standing, and said that they were destroyed 

 when a new line of fence was made. The older of my informants described 

 its appearance as something like a big cottage loaf, a description which can 

 not inaptly be applied to the Scilly Logan Stone. He further spoke of the 

 hole in the top stone, and said that when children they often clambered up and 

 rilled the cup, which had always water in it, with spring or summer flowers. 

 This same cavity he described as being drilled deeper and filled with gun- 

 powder to effect the destruction of the upper stone. — Ed.] 



