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only one hollow. The stone is 2 feet 6 inches square ; the excava- 

 tion is 15 inches long, 12 inches wide, and 5 inches deep. Outside 

 the Hut is another stone, with only one excavation of about the 

 same dimensions as the one inside. Probably it has been removed 

 from within, at a comparatively recent period. Each of these two 

 stones is nearly 18 inches thick, and would weigh about 300 lbs. 

 — At the southern end of this Hut is a small division, as shewn 

 in the accompanying sketch, and there are also several solid oblong 

 stones, each about 2 feet long, and from 10 to 14 inches square in 

 thickness ; they have evidently been worked, and in one or two 

 is a shallow channel, 2 inches wide, and about half an inch deep. 



It should be stated, in connection with these objects, as well 

 as with all the others of similar character, that there -are abundant 

 evidences of all the valleys in the neighbourhood having been 

 streamed for Tin. 



As supplementary to the above, Mr. Kelly wrote on the 21st 

 of May, as follows : 



" I was on the Moor on Friday, and discovered another of the 

 Rectangular Huts, with a Stone (See Fig. 4) similar to those de- 

 scribed in my former letter, except that the excavations were upon 

 a smaller scale. The stone was about three feet long, and very 

 massive; I should think its weight was 5 cwt. The excava- 

 tions were not cut in the centre of the stone, but one at each 

 corner. There does not appear to be much regularity in the size 

 of the excavations, either in this or the others formerly noticed. 

 The broken one was larger than the perfect one, but not so large 

 as those in the other stones. I have thought it as well to give 

 you a description of this last find, and I believe that similar stones 

 are, or have been, in all these rectangular huts, though I have not 

 succeeded in finding them in all, being unable to move the fallen- 

 in ruins in the others. The Stream-works appear to have been in 

 sets ; with a Hut attached to each set of works." 



Mr. Kelly has favoured us with an account of the other relics 

 of primitive antiquity in this district. These have been, for the 

 most part, mentioned in Rowe's " Perambulation of Dartmoor "; 



