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Portugal and Brittany, finally crossing the Channel to Devon and 

 Cornwall." 



Not many miles from Stonehenge, is what is known as the "Wilt- 

 shire Serpent," which consists of upright monoliths set in the ground 

 at some distance apart, forming a zigzag line about twenty-seven miles 

 in length. Figure 87 shows two tall monoliths on the seashore of Corn- 

 wall, locally called the "Pipers." 



Besides Stonehenge there are many other stone circles in England. 

 The largest of these is at Avebury, not many miles distant from Stone- 

 henge. Its earth enclosure contains twenty-eight and a half acres. Un- 

 luckily today it is in such a state of ruin, that its former greatness is 



Fig. 88. — A great stone circle near Lands End, Cornwall. Locally called the 

 "Nineteen Merry Maids." 



hardly to be distinguished. This seems to be of an earlier date than 

 Stonehenge, and was likely its earlier typical model. In Avebury the 

 monoliths are rough and unhewn native rocks. At Stonehenge they 

 "are squared, dressed and crowned with lintels." "Whereas the circle 

 alone is used at Avebury, Stonehenge lias in addition to the horseshoe, 

 the series of trilithons and foreign uprights and in this particular differs 

 from all other inonuments of this kind in the British Isles. It is the 

 climax of the megalithic monument." Monuments of the Stonehenge 

 type are found in the following named counties of South England: 

 Cornwall, Droonshire, Dorset, Somerset and Wiltshire. Figure 88 

 shows a great stone circle near Lands End, Cornwall. 



