I04 SOME NOTES ON ARBOR LOW AND OTHER LOWS. 



The largest of the stones in the centre of the "circle," 

 numbered 1 by Mr. Gray, has the appearance of having been 

 dressed to shape. The upper surface as it lies is approximately 

 a plane. On one side two nearly semi-cylindrical portions have, 

 in my opinion, been artificially removed, as their rounded sides 

 are square to the plane face of the stone. If the stone were a 

 surface stone (known locally as Rockery stone), and the holes 

 had been produced by weathering, the arrises or angles would 

 have been rounded off ; the smooth appearance of a weathered 

 stone is also absent. It is inconceivable that any process of 

 cleavage or fracture could remove these semi-cylindrical portions, 

 leaving the rounded sides square tO' the face. 



— Sketch of South End of Stone N9I. — 



k to E dressed square to face/ 

 Scale, 4. feet to an inch. 



This stone has a rough similarity of outline to the hawk- 

 headed Egyptian sun-god, Ra. (See Sketch.) The stone when 

 standing may have been used as a pointer for some object, one of 

 the sharp points being used ; or it may have been a base of 

 observation, the spaces which have been worked out being 

 used. I rather incline to the second idea, and think it was 

 used in conjunction with the south pointer to mark the high 

 noon. 



If we stand in the centre of the " circle," due north of the 

 south pointer, and lay off a line 30° west of the true 



