By William Long, Esq., M.A. 345 



one another, so that one may ^yalk between. Many of the stones 

 have of late been carried away. West of it is a single, broad, flat, 

 and high stone, standing by itself; and about as far northward 

 from the circle, in a ploughed field, is a barrow set round with, or 

 rather composed of large stones."^ " By the above description, I 

 was enabled," says Sir R. Hoare, " to find the remains of this 

 circle, which is situated in a pasture ground at the angle of a road 

 leading to Broad Ilinton, and consists at present only of a few in- 

 considerable stones."^ 



In the dip of the hill between the Kennet avenue and a slight ob- 

 long earthwork on the slope ofIIakpenHill,3a solitary stone is stand- 

 ing. Mr. Falkner of Devizes, has favored me with the following ac- 

 count of his observations in connection with it. "The stone which you 

 saw in a field on the left, when you went along the avenue towards 

 Kennet, was seen by me in 1840. I went to it, and found it was 

 one of a circle that had existed at some former period. There were 

 two other stones lying on the ground, and nine hollow places, from 



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Small Circle near Kennet. (Fallcner, 1840.) 



which stones had been removed, making twelve altogether. I made 

 a note of it at the time, and the person with whom I was riding 



' Stukeley's Abury, p. 45. » lloare's Ancient Wiltshire, ii. p. 95, 



' I u.se the words ' Ilakpen Hill' because this hill is so designated in the i)lan, 

 but the llakpcn IIill, prop^ily m called, docs not extend so far to the south, or 

 beyoud the road kadiag from Abui-y to Rockloy. See Orduauce Map. 



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