6 SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 
The Rev. W. ARTHUR JoNES, one of the Secretaries, 
read the following Notice of Remains of Ancient British 
Hut-cireles on Croydon Hill :— 
“] beg to call the attention of the Society to the remains 
of an ancient British village which I think I have dis- 
covered in this neighbourhood. I was led to examine this 
distriet from seeing, in Savage’s Carhampton that on the 
Croydon Hills there were two Druidic eircles. When I 
came to the spot indieated I could find no trace whatever 
of the tall upright stones invariably marking the site of 
sacred enclosures ; nor could I learn from any of the oldest 
inhabitants that stones of that description ever existed 
there. I had almost given up the search—concluding that 
the Druidie eirele, if it ever existed, was now utterly de- 
stroyed-—when I came upon the remains (almost entirely 
covered with the fern brake) which had given rise to the 
representations of Savage. But, instead of being a Druidie 
circle, it proved, considering the eircumstances, a remark- 
ably well-defined collection of hut eircles. 
“ This ancient British settlement (as I take it) lies on 
the south-western deelivity of the hill above Withycombe, 
under the eminence called the Fire-beacon, and close to 
the cottage known as Higher Dumbledeer. The outline of 
several of the cabin-eireles is perfect ; that of others is 
more or less obliterated; and I ascertained from some of 
the inhabitants that a great quantity of the stones had been 
used to drain the adjoining fields. The aspeet and position 
of this village corresponds most fully with those in which 
the ancient British villages are found on the Dartmoor. 
It stands on a gentle slope, looking towards the south- 
west, and sheltered by the hill behind from the cold winds 
of the north and north-east. Close by there is a spring of 
running water at Higher Dumbledeer ; and a little lower, 
