IGS RUDE STONE MONUMENTS ON BODMIN MOOR. 



stones which may have formed part of a cist, and there are also 

 about half a dozen stones, which may he the remains of another 

 circle, a short distance to the north-west, beyond which, about 

 half-a-mile from the Leaze circle, is 



"King Arthur's Hall." This remarkable structure* con- 

 sists of a bank of earth, the present breadth of which varies 

 from 1 2 to 20 feet at the base, and its height from 5 to 7 feet ; 

 this bank encloses an oblong space, 159 feet long, from north to 

 south (within 5 degrees to west of north), 64 feet wide at the 

 north, and 68|^ feet wide at the south. Twelve stones stand or 

 lie in line inside the north end of the bank, eighteen inside the 

 east side, six inside the south end, and nineteen inside the west 

 side ; they seem to have formed a kind of retaining wall to the 

 inner side of the bank, but are mostly pressed inward and in 

 many cases nearly buried by its gradual wearing away, it is 

 indeed probable that many stones are quite covered, and that 

 the lines, if not quite continuous, were originally much more 

 complete than they are now, but this can only be ascertained by 

 digging or boring ; the largest stones remaining in position are 

 about five feet high. The middle of the enclosure is a foot or 

 so lower than the ground outside, and in wet weather is full of 

 water, which finds an outlet at the south-west corner. All the 

 corners of the embankment are more or less broken and rounded, 

 and it is lower at the north and south ends than at the east and 

 west sides, but there is no appearance of any special entrance, 

 the angles of the lines of stones being well-defined, except, 

 perhaps, at the south-west corner. 



The Stannon Circle is a mile and a half north (slightly 

 west) from " King Arthur's Hall," and will be most readily 

 found by getting to the position where Eough Tor is due east 

 by compass, about a mile and a quarter away, and the three 

 highest peaks of Brown Willy are just visible over the ridge, as 

 shown in the sketch on my plan. The circle consists of about 



*The members of the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall visited Arthur's Hall, 

 Eoughtor, Brownwilly, and neighbouring stone-remains, in the course of their 

 Annual Excursion, 1887. It has been conjectured that Arthur's Hall may have 

 been a great cattle-pound, a place of assembly, or an earthwork occupied by a 

 small detachment of Roman troops. — W.I., Co. -Ed. 



