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RUDE STONE MONUMENTS ON BODMIN MOOR. 



By a. L. lewis, F.S.A., Treasurer Anthropological Institute. 



While the rude stone monuments of the Land's End district, 

 and the "Hurlers" and "Trethevy Stone," in East Cornwall, 

 have been known for centuries, and described very many times, 

 the no less interesting groups of remains on the west side of 

 Brown Willy and Rough Tor*, have attracted but little attention ; 

 the Ordnance map surveyors noted them in the course of their 

 duty, but few archaeologists knew them, and, although plans 

 of three of the circles were given by Messrs. Lukis and Borlase 

 in their elaborate work on Cornish Eude Stone Monuments, 

 published by the Society of Antiquaries, two others, the Leaze and 

 Stannon circles, and the very extraordinary structure known as 

 " King Arthur's Hall," were not mentioned by them at all. So 

 far as I know, the only plans of any of these yet published, are 

 those which I now place before the Institution by permission of 

 the Council of the Anthropological Institute, which had them 

 photographically reproduced from my drawings a year ago. 



The Leaze Circle may be most conveniently reached from 

 Blisland on the one hand, or from St. Breward on the other, by 

 the road which leads to and terminates at the farm marked as 

 Leaze on the Ordnance map. Passing through the yards and an 

 enclosure or two, the visitor will find the stones, — ten standing 

 and one fallen, besides four or five fragments, three of which 

 are buried in a fence which cuts the circle in halves. 



The diameter of the circle appears to have been 83^ feet, but 

 its south-eastern segment is wanting ; the stones are from 3 to 4 

 feet high, and 1 to 2^ feet in width and thickness. A little way 

 from the circle, about 10 degrees east of north from it, are three 



*The names of Brown-Willy and Eougli-Tor are not supposed to signify 

 either " Brown " or " Eough," although in modern spelling they appear to do so. 

 Their old Cornish titles " Bryn-whella " and, perhaps, " Rudh-tor," (similar in 

 sound to Brown-willy and Row-tor) were expressive of "Hill-highest," and 

 " Ruddy-prominence ;" the latter being eciuivalent to Rouge-mont. With 

 regard to Rhud, however, there are other adjectives worthy of consideration. — 

 W. I., Co-Editor, E.I.C.J. 



