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only large circles on Dartmoor, concerning which, there is no 

 evidence or suggestion of such association, are the Throwleigh, 

 Eingmore, Kaybarrow, and Grey "Wethers ; and some, of course, 

 may simply have disappeared. It must however be borne in mind 

 that circles are not invariable accompaniments of rows. The 

 cairns which head the rows at Assycombe, Glazecombe, and 

 Conies Down, and the southern row at Harter, have no trace of 

 circles ; and on the other hand, one of the most complete of 

 the smaller cii'cles of Dartmoor, which encloses a very perfect 

 Mstvaen, on the hill above Harford, has no indication of a row. 

 And the same is the case with circles enclosing kistvaens at Hound 

 Tor, Bellaford Tor, Shavercombe, and Grrimsgrove. 



To which I may add, that this same association of circles and 

 rows, which has been shown to exist in the great majority of cases 

 on Dartmoor, is seen in such noteworthy examples as Avebury, 

 the grandest of the whole, where the great circle is 1200 feet in 

 diameter ; at Stanton Drew, where the great circle, 368 feet in 

 diameter, and the second of 97, both show remains of rows — • 

 though none are now visible in connection with the third; at 

 Shap ; at Oallernish in Lewis ; and at Oarnac in Brittany, where 

 one of the three chief groups commences in a circle 290 feet in 

 diameter, a second group with a kind of horse-shoe shaped 

 enclosure, while in the third, where no terminal circle is now 

 found, it is noted that one may have existed. At Shahpore, in 

 India, circles are connected by lines ; and tumuli are linked in the 

 same fashion, in Algeria. 



There are other examples, but these will suflB.ce to prove 

 that, from the 1200 feet circle of Avebury, down to the eighteen 

 feet circle of Cholwich Town, there is an intimate connection 

 between stone circles and stone rows ; and that the general 

 purpose of the one cannot be disconnected from the general 

 purpose of the other. 



I may add, before going further, that the circles and rows of 

 Dartmoor do not in any way encourage the idea that orientation 

 in an important feature. There is no one certain rule, though 

 in individual localities certain bearings seem more in favour than 

 in others. Thus they have a more general easterly and westerly 

 bearing in the southern quarter; a more general northerly 

 and southerly bearing in the northern ; while there are 



