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positive that these flint flakes were struck on the banks of Dozmare Pool, 

 where similar flakes are found in association with flint arrow-heads, 

 then we could date the flakes found at this circle with some degree of 

 accuracy. We must bear in mind that none of the flakes were found 

 nearer the present surface than 0-8 foot, and it is highly probable that 

 this dimension represents the approximate thickness of the peat which 

 has accumulated since the disuse of the circle. Therefore I think we are 

 safe in regarding the three flakes and the calcined flint as having been 

 dropped round about Stones I and X during an early prehistoric state of 

 culture of uncertain age. 



Sepulture was evidently not the object of the circle, or we should 

 probably have found human remains in the central excavation. 



APPENDIX. 



In addition to the work at the Stripple Stones, I made scale-drawings 

 and copious notes of two of the four neighbouring stone circles, viz., the 

 Trippet Stones and the Leaze Circle. It is hoped that these and the plan 

 of the Stripple Stones will be figured in ' Archseologia ' later on. 



2Vippet Stones. — This circle is situated in the parish of Blisland, on 

 the Manor Downs division of the Bodmin Moors, 4,170 feet in a bee-line 

 W.S.W. of the centre of the Stripple Stones. From Bodmin the circle is 

 6| miles in a N.E. direction ; and from Port Isaac Bay it is barely 

 8 miles. It is about 799 feet above mean sea-level, and the moor in this 

 part is almost level. The stones are arranged in the form of a true circle, 

 and consist of eight standing and four prostrate monoliths. The N.E. 

 portion is the most complete part remaining, and I estimate that twenty- 

 six stones forming the circle originally stood at an average distance of 

 121 feet apart. The diameter of the circle is 108 feet. The stones 

 vary in width from 1^ to 3^ feet, and in thickness from 1^ to 2 feet. The 

 three highest stones average 5 feet in height above the depressions worn 

 round them ; whilst the average height is 4-4 feet. 



The Leaze Circle. — It is so named from the farm on which it is 

 situated, and is in the parish of St. Brevvard. There are only four 

 cottages within a mile of it. The De Lank River, which divides the 

 parishes of Blisland and St. Breward, is less than J mile to the E. and 

 S.E. The circle is rather less than lif mile to the N.N.W. of the 

 Stripple Stones, and rather more than'U mile to the N.N.E. of the 

 Trippet Stones. It is about 815 feet above" sea-level, but it is not visible 

 from the four neighbouring circles. The circle has been mutilated to a 

 large extent by the modern bank which divides it into two portions. 

 The Leaze Circle consists of ten standing and five prostrate monoliths ; 

 the N.E. part is the most complete poi-tion remaining, and it is estimated 

 that twenty-two stones, forming a true circle having a diameter of 81 feet, 

 originally stood at an approximate distance of 12 feet apart. The 

 average height of the standing-stones above their encircling depressions is 

 3-3 feet. In width they vary considerably, viz., from 1-3 to 2-75 feet, and 

 in thickness from 0-8 to 17 foot. 



I hope to have the opportunity of making accurate plans (to the same 

 scale) of the two neighbouring circles, viz., Fernacre and Stannon, in the 

 near future ; but time did not permit of my doing more than was accom- 

 plished on the Bodmin Moors in 1905. 



