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Mr. Gray’s detailed report upon the work done is appended. It may 
be added that the thanks of the Committee are due to Mr. Gray, who 
undertook the work without any remuneration. The Committee ask to 
be reappointed, with the addition of Lord Avebury to their number. 
Lord Avebury has very kindly agreed to excavations being made at Ave 
bury Stone Circle, and it is greatly to be hoped that a grant may be made 
for this purpose. The Avebury circle is perhaps the most important in 
Great Britain, and it is most desirable that this site should be excavated 
with a view to gaining fresh evidence as to the period to which the circles 
belong. Owing to there being a very fine fosse connected with this 
monument, it is likely that far more definite results may be obtained upon 
this site than upon any other. The careful exploration of this circle is 
one of the most important pieces of archxological work remaining to be 
done in Great Britain. To make detailed partial excavations on the site 
will involve an expenditure of some 120/. at least, and the Committee ask 
for a grant of this amount. 
Notes on the Survey of the Fernacre and Stannon Stone Circles, East 
Cornwall, 1906. By H. Sr, Gtorar Gray. 
I, The Fernacre Stone Circle. 
1. The Position of the Circle——Fernacre Circle, which belongs to 
Sir William Onslow, Bart., is in the parish of St. Breward, the village of 
which is 32 miles distant in a S.W. direction,! and the same distance to 
the 8.E. of Camelford. It is about 925 feet above the mean level of the 
sea. Hut-circles abound to the E. between the circle and Fernacre 
farm, and to the N. on the southern slopes of Rough Tor. To the S. and 
W.S.W. are barrows and stone cists. To the N.W. at a distance of 
4} furlongs, is the Logan Rock at the N. extremity of Louden Hill. The 
view from the circle is confined to a comparatively small area, bounded 
on the N. by Rough Tor, on the S. by Garrow Tor, on the E. by Brown 
Willy, and on the W. by Louden Hill. 
The Fernacre Circle is situated at the following distances from the 
neighbouring circles : The Stripple Stones, 15,675 feet (three miles), due S. ; 
the Trippet Stones, 16,810 feet (31 miles), S.S.W. ; the Leaze Circle 9,220 
feet (1j mile), S.8.W. ; the Stannon Circle, 6,270 feet (94 furlongs), W. 
The Stripple Stones, the Leaze, and Stannon Circles” are almost 
in line, and the same remark applies to the Trippet Stones, the Leaze, 
and Fernacre Circles. By reference to the 6-inch Ordnance sheets it is 
seen that the summit of Brown Willy, Fernacre, and Stannon Circles are 
very nearly in the same alignment, but the line connecting the former 
and the latter misses being due E. and W. by just 2°, Fernacre falling 
a little S. of this line ; Brown Willy is the most northerly of the three. 
2. Description of the Circle.—The plan encloses an area 175 feet 
due N.and 8. by 175 feet E. and W., the ground covering 0-7 acre. The 
magnetic variation for September 1, 1906, at Brown Willy was 17° 18’ W. 
of true N. The plan with its 6-inch contours shows a maximum fall of 
125 feet from the highest ground in the N.E. corner to the lowest at 
the S.W. 
Details regarding the position and size of the stones have been care- 
fully recorded. A mere glance at the plan shows that the stones were 
‘ All measurements are taken as the crow flies. 
1907 RB 
