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Eows with circles and menhirs, of what I regard as the typical 

 form, occur : — at Harter, where the circle, enclosing the barrow 

 from which a double row starts, is over 30 feet in diameter, but 

 the menhir is wanting ; at Down Tor, where a very fine single 

 row starts from a circle, 37 feet in diameter, enclosing a harrowed 

 kistvean, nineteen stones being standing (out of a probable 

 twenty-six); at Drizzlecombe, where there are three circles enclos- 

 ing barrows, from 29 to 30 feet in diameter, and one associated 

 with a kistvaen; at Trowlesworthy, where one circle is 20 feet in 

 diameter and the other 23 ; at Oholwich Town, where the circle 

 is 18 feet across ; at Yadsworthy, where the circle has a diameter 

 of 33 feet ; at Butterdon ; at Launceston or Longstone Moor, 

 where the circle enclosed a barrow and must have been over 30 

 feet across ; near Erme Pound ; also at Stalldon, where there is 

 a very fine circle 45 feet in diameter, in which may be seen 

 the traces of a barrow, and which itself was surrounded by a 

 trench. This circle is moreover remarkable as being the starting 

 point of the longest stoae row on record, for it is upwards of 

 two and a quarter miles in length, though much ruinated towards 

 its further extremity, and wanting the final menhir. 



The celebrated rows above Merivale Bridge, which are 

 undoubtedly responsible for the misleading names "avenue" and 

 "parallelithon," vary somewhat from the type. The northern 

 double row begins with a circle surrounding a menhir, so that, 

 save in the matter of size, the Boscawen-un arrangement is 

 reproduced. The southern double row terminates with a menhir 

 at each end, but has a twelve-foot circle midway, which once 

 enclosed a kistvaen. The great menhir which stands to the 

 north-west of the rows has the remains of a small circle about 

 it, and attached are the fragments of a row, which I was the first 

 to put on record. Hard by is the great Merivale circle, 54 feet 

 in diameter, at present isolated. Seeing however that almost 

 the entire row belonging to the great menhir has disappeared, 

 probably to build an adjacent wall, and that there is some reason 

 to suppose yet another existed, it would be very unwise to assume 

 that this circle was always as independent as now. 



Two other variants are supplied by the rows at Coryndon 

 Ball and Challacombe. At Coryndon Ball a circle, originally 

 about twenty-seven feet in diameter, is the starting point of no 



