84 THE RUDE STOlfE MONUMENTS OF CORNWAtt. 



less than seven parallel rows of small stones, one appearing to 

 be the principal and the others accessories. Another single row, 

 close by, starts from a cairn without a circle, a condition of affairs 

 which is exactly paralleled at Harter, where an uncircled cairn 

 heads a single row close by a double. At Challacombe there 

 are at present four rows of stones ending in a menhir, which do 

 not start from a circle, but run hy the side of a circle, some of 

 the stones of which are included in one of the rows. 



Finally, we have rows associated with double and triple 

 concentric circles of small diameter. These multiple circles do 

 not appear to be fellowed in Cornwall. The most important 

 triple circle was connected with the rows at Batworthy, which, 

 have been described as five in number, but probably formed three 

 only, one beginning with a cromlech, another with a circle 

 enclosing a kistvaen, and the third with the triple ring. When 

 measured by the late Mr. Ormerod, the outer of these circles was 

 twenty-six feet in diameter, the second twenty feet and the third 

 thirteen feet, while three stones stood in the centre. 



A similar arrangement is found in connection with the 

 threefold rows at Cosdon, which have a double head, suggesting 

 that what now appears to be one monument is really two, One 

 head consists of a small stone, enclosed by what once were three 

 concentric circles, which is however too small to be called a menhir. 

 The outer circle is about twenty-three feet across, the second 

 twelve, the third is not so clear, all the stones being down, but 

 was not more than six feet in diameter. The other head is a 

 circled kistvaen. Here, the middle circle is the clearest, about 

 fiiteen feet in diameter ; and there are traces of an inner circle 

 of six feet, and an outer of twenty-two feet. The outer circles 

 of the kist and the standing stone must, when complete, have 

 touched, if they did not actually interfere. 



There are traces of double circles — seven and eleven feet, 

 and eight feet and sixteen, and of two single circles, twenty four 

 feet in diameter, with indications of rows, on the plateau of Cocks 

 Tor, but they are very indefinite. It is clear also that a row or 

 rows was connected with the destroyed circles at Drewsteignton. 



As to tbe large circles of Scorhill and Fernworthy, the 

 bearing of the various rows between them is such as to render con- 

 tinuation and connection highly probable. And practically the 



