ROUGH STONE MONUMENTS 



its form was. Wayland the Smith's Cave was 

 probably a three-chambered corridor-tomb covered 

 with a mound. The famous Men-an-tol in Corn- 

 wall may well be all that is left of a chamber- 

 tomb of some kind. It is a slab about 3J feet 

 square, in which is a hole ij feet in diameter. 

 There are other stones standing or lying around it. 

 It is known to the peasants as the Crickstone, 

 for it was said to cure sufferers from rickets or 

 crick in the back if they passed nine times through 

 the hole in a direction against the sun. The Isle 

 of Man possesses a fine sepulchral monument on 

 Meayll Hill. It consist of six T-shaped chamber- 

 tombs arranged in a circle with entrances to the 

 north and south. There is also a corridor-tomb, 

 known as King Orry's Grave, at Laxey, and 

 another with a semicircular facade at Maughold. 



Among the megalithic monuments of our 

 islands the chambered barrows hold an important 

 place. It is well known that in the neolithic 

 period the dead in certain parts of England were 

 buried under mounds of not circular but elongated 

 shape. These graves are commonest in Wiltshire 

 and the surrounding counties of Dorsetshire, 

 Somersetshire, and Gloucestershire. A few exist 

 in other counties. Some contain no chamber, 

 while others contain a structure of the megalithic 

 type. It is with these latter that we have here to 

 deal. Chambered long barrows are most frequent 



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