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&c., stands for last, end, limit, or boundary, — whence perhaps 

 Dewedh-looe, the region extending as far as the Looe, or bounded 

 by it. Due (participle) signifies "ended;" Due, "will come," is 

 the future of the verb dos ; whilst Duello, dello, dyllo, is the 

 verb meaning to let out, or discharge. And from Du, or tu, a 

 side part or place, we might have Du-loe, the Looe-region, the 

 land on the side or bank of the Looe. 



But all this assumes an extensive parish being called by the 

 name of its bounding water, and if it does in any way obtain 

 its name from the two rivers, or from the estuary below, the 

 term Duloe does not suggest anything which can throw light on 

 the origin of the Stone Circle. I would then point out that, in 

 Anglo-Saxon (which language crept into some parts of East 

 Cornwall, — displacing the Celtic), Du-low may have signified 

 "Black-barrow," or dark tumulus. (Dun = black, brown, 

 dark ; — hlsew, hlaw, low, — a covering, a grave, heap, barrow, 

 mound, small hill, a low or loe). The term " low " or " loe " is 

 extensively applied to barrows in other parts of England, and 

 the name " Black-barrow " is met with at certain places in 

 Cornwall. Near Bodmin is Black-Pool, at "Dun-mere."*' 



Jewitt, (in his " Grrave-mounds," p. 4) has stated: — "In 

 Derbyshire and Staffordshire the term * low ' is so very usual 

 that, wherever met with, it may be taken as a sure indication of 

 a barrow now existing or having once existed on the spot." He 

 adds that there are more than 300 lows in Derbyshire and on its 

 borders, and he names as examples: — Arbor-low, "Dow-low" 

 &c. 



This latter name reminds us of Duloe, and we might also 

 compare it with Dunlo. For another comparison and contrast 

 we may note Dowland, by Dolton, in Devon ; the former place 

 being mentioned as Duelonde, in the Episcopal Register at 

 Exeter, A.D. 1269. 



If Duloe, then, should take its title from its "low" or 

 " barrow," we have the character of this small circle revealed in 



* Here again other derivations occur to interfere with so probable a 

 coincidence in terms ; for on the hill, above Black-Pool, is a large British circular 

 Camp, in Dun-Mear Wood, and Din or Dun, is Cornish for hill-fortress; and 

 Meor, meur, mawr, is great. The Lexicographer Williams explains Dun-mear 

 simply as the great hill ; and certainly the steepness of the old roads leading to 

 and from Dunmere Bridge is proverbial. 



