t\)t stones 0f StJintoir Jlrcto: tljcvr 



By PEOF. 0. LLOYD MORGAN.. 



IN the " Procoedings of the Somersotshire Archteological 

 and Natural History Society (1887)" I have given, a full 

 account of my investigations at Stanton Drew, and liave 

 published a plan of the circles (modified from that of Mr. 

 Dymond, C.E., l^^.S.A.) with references to their lithological 

 character. Prom the paper there published I here quote, 

 l)y permission, a few paragraphs. 



(concerning the niogalithic remains at Stanton Drew much 

 has been written. Local tradition has preserved for us an 

 account of their origin sufficiently miraculous. Around 

 them in later times there has been a delicate play of 

 archseologic fancy. 



In this paper it is not my purpose to criticize or to dis' 

 cuss at any length the final cause of their erection. The 

 task I have set before myself is a more practical, and, I 

 venture to hope, a. more useful one. My object in the in- 

 vestigations, the imperfect results of which are here with 

 some diffidence laid before the Somersetshire Archseologioal 



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