RUDE STONE MONUMENTS ON BODMIN MOOR. 109 



70 stones and fragments, of which 33 are upright, but none of 

 them exceed five feet, and some of them are not more than two 

 feet in height. The diameters are 138 feet from east to west, 

 and 125^ feet from north to south, there being a peculiar flatten- 

 ing of the northern side, in which respect it resembles Long 

 Meg circle in Cumberland. 



On measuring the distances between four out of the five 

 circles on Bodmin Moor upon the level surface of the six-inch 

 Ordnance map, a remarkable result is obtained, those distances 

 being (within a working error of one per cent.) in the following 

 proportions: — 2, 3, H, 8, and 8^, and working out into even 

 numbers of an Egyptian or Eoyal Persian cubit of 25-1 inches, 

 as do the diameters of the circles themselves. These latter (after 

 correcting Mr. Lukis's errors in plotting his own measurements), 

 are : — 



Fernacre . . 146 — 7 feet ^=70 cubits of 25-1 inches. 



Q, ") 138 feet east to west =66 



btannon . . j ^^^^ ^^ ^^^^^ ^^ south=60 



Trippet Stones 104^- ,, =50 



Stripple Stones 146— 7 feet =70 



Leaze . . . . 83^ feet =40 



The distances between the circles are, as nearly as can be 

 ascertained from the six-inch Ordnance map : — 



Trippet Stones to Stripple ) 4180 feet=1998J cubits of 25-1 ins. 



Stones ] (practically 2000) 



Stripple Stones to Fernacre 15730 feet=7520 „ „ 



(practically 7500) 

 Fernacre to Stannon . . 6275 feet=3000 ,, ,, 



Stannon to Trippet Stones 16400 feet=7840 ,, „ 



(for 8000, 2 per cent, error) 

 Trippet Stones to Fernacre 16880 feet= 8070 „ „ 



(for 8125) 

 Stripple Stones to Stannon 16850 feet=8055 ,, ,, 



(for 8125) 

 It must not be forgotten that the above distances are 

 measured as on the level, while the ground is very irregular. 

 But if measured over the surface without regard to its irregu- 

 larities the apparent errors, which with one exception^ are all 



