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THE EXPLOEATION OF CARN-BREA. 



older settlement, but the evidence is by no means conclusive, and 

 many competent persons who have been on the hill with me, 

 and have critically examined the ''finds," entirely discredit 

 such a view. 



Many of the circles on Carn Brea are clear and distinct — 

 how much so, may be seen from the photographs of the two 

 illustrated ; but the majority were only traced by long and 

 anxious search for the dead herbage covering the buried stones. 

 It will be seen from the map that I have traced about 60 such 









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Circle No. 11. 



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stones flat. 



A. Platform 11 inches above floor. 



B. Space enclosed by small stones on floor level. 



C. Concave hearth in sub-soil hardened by fire, contained charcoal, 

 cavity is 7 inches deep at edge and 9^ inches in centre. 



D. Platform 10 inches above floor level. 



E. Double row of stones 8 inches high. 



The 



