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away, easily seen from it, stands Dr. Petrie's No. 4. This 

 cromleac is quite perfect, and stands about five feet high. There 

 are five supports for the cap stone, which measures about fourteen 

 feet in circumference. It stands near the middle of a field, and 

 formerly had a stone circle around it about forty feet in 

 diameter, consisting of forty large stones. When Dr. Petrie 

 visited it in 1837, he found twenty-one of these still there. In 

 1883 these were all gone but one ! On enquiring of the farmer 

 before-mentioned how this was, he told me the twenty-one 

 stones were all there still, but twenty had been buried by the 

 man who held the farm before him, adding — "And he got no 

 good by burying them." The former tenant feared to destroy 

 the stones, and so dug a large hole at the base of each, and then 

 tipped twenty of them into the holes made, " and there they 

 are still," said my informant. He would have tipped over the 

 last stone, but the agent, hearing what he was doing, came and 

 stopped him just in time to save it. On account of the stones 

 being " still there," though invisible, I have ventured to name 

 this " The Cromleac of the Phantom Stones." Although there 

 are no stones placed as a porch outside the supporting stones, 

 yet the idea of having a special entrance is evident in the con- 

 struction of the entrance. See sketch No. 3. 



The remains of at least two very fine circles are near this 

 cromleac, one of them containing a ruined cromleac, and the 

 other having been a double circle, the outer circle being formed 

 of very large stones. The chamber of the ruined cromleac was 

 examined about fifty years ago by a gentleman named Walker, 

 who found human remains in it. About a dozen were thus 

 examined, and at least ten of them contained an interment of 

 human remains, and in one instance the cromleac contained an 

 urn, broken. This was found in Dr. Petrie's No. 17 — a double 

 circle. 



Crossing the road again, there stands a little way south-west 

 of the farm-house a large heap of stones which have been 

 gathered off the land. Under this heap there is a perfect 



