THE ZOOLOGIST 



No. 668.— February, 1897. 



NEOLITHIC LIFE IN DEVON AND CORNWALL. 



By A. L. Lewis, F.C.A., 

 Treasurer of the Anthropological Institute. 



During the last few years much useful work has been done 

 by certain members of the Devonshire Association and of the 

 Royal Institution of Cornwall in surveying and exploring the 

 prehistoric monuments which, though sadly reduced in number, 

 still abound on Dartmoor and in various parts of Cornwall. 

 Admirably illustrated reports of the work done have been pub- 

 lished in the Journals of the two societies, but, as these are not 

 very largely circulated outside the two south-western counties, 

 there ma)' be many readers of ' The Zoologist ' to whom a 

 brief account of the results obtained may not be unwelcome. 



Visitors to the central parts of Dartmoor will remember 

 the various remains which they have met with there — long 

 "rows" or lines of stones, sometimes single, sometimes double 

 — stones standing or lying in circles, sometimes in connection 

 with the "rows," but more frequently not — single stones or 

 menhirs — and rude enclosures formed by low walls of smaller 

 stones without mortar, sometimes large, sometimes small, some- 

 times singly, sometimes in groups, with or without a similar wall 

 enclosing the group. The smaller of these are called "hut- 

 circles," the larger ones " pounds " ; they are the remains of pre- 

 historic dwellings, and it is in them that the most interesting 

 discoveries have been made. 



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