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for it was probably continued further northwards than it is 

 at present. On referring to the Ordnance Map, a little to 

 the right of the word ' Llanlawer,' will be seen the position 

 of the line called in the map ' Parc-y-marw ' (field of the 

 dead); and a little further to the east, but slightly to the 

 north, is marked down the cromlech destroyed by Fenton, 

 and of which only some small fragments remain. The line 

 of stones is parallel to the narrow road, and if continued 

 would pass within a few paces of the ruined cromlech. Here, 

 as at Rhos-y-beddau, the name points to the character of 

 the monument ; for experience has shown that local names 

 of this kind in Wales, handed down from time immemorial, 

 may be generally depended on. Local tradition, however, 

 adds an account of a desperate battle fought on the spot, 

 among the pillar-stones themselves, as if the possession of 

 them were said to have been the sole object of the com- 

 batants. A lady, clad all in white, appears to those who 

 are rash enough to walk that way by night ; and so ancient 

 is this tradition, which is still firmly believed, that a short 

 distance before the stones commence, a foot-path, by long 

 use now become public, turns across the fields to the left, 

 making a detour of % nearly a mile before it leads again into 

 the road. During day-time the peasants do not think it 

 necessary to take the roundabout course. The road itself is 

 evidently one of great antiquity, and apparently led to the 

 great work at Dinas. The height of the stones is not so 

 striking, as their lower part is embedded in the tall bank of 

 earth that does the duty of an ordinary edge ; but some of 

 them are full 16 feet long." 



Mr. Lukis having shown conclusively that the lines of 

 Carnac constitute not one monument, but three distinct 

 groups, proceeds to compare them with Avebury. He re- 

 marks that now there is very little clue to its original plan, 

 and that we are compelled to accept the inaccurate drawings 

 of antiquaries of the seventeenth and early part of the 

 eighteenth centuries. Whilst he confesses himself sceptical 

 with regard to the ground-plan of Avebury as given by 

 Stukeley, his doubt is strengthened by his intimate acquaint- 

 ance with the Carnac and other groups of stone lines in 

 Brittany. He prefers the more careful drawing in the plans 

 of Aubray to the fanciful restoration of Stukeley, and gives 

 as his opinion that the remains at Avebury were originally 

 three distinct monuments; viz., one group of concentric 

 circles, and short avenue, on Overton Hill ; the second, of 

 the larger circles and avenue of Avebury ; whilst the third 

 monument of like character, i.e., composed of rows of stones 



