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used as a cooking hole, into which, after it had been thoroughly 

 heated, meat was put with hot pebbles and covered over until it 

 was sufficiently baked. One small piece of pottery, a flint knife, 

 and two flint scrapers, are all the articles of human workman- 

 ship found in the twenty circles cleared at Grimspound. 



Other collections of circles have, however, been explored in 

 different parts of Dartmoor which, while their general charac- 

 teristics were very similar, have supplied some further remains 

 of the handiwork of their former occupants. Several flint 

 knives, scrapers and flakes, hones, rubbers, and mullers, one 

 stone with a hole bored nearly through it, a spindle whorl 

 of baked clay (a most important indication of the comparative 

 civilization of the inhabitants), and some very rude pottery, are 

 the produce of later excavations. 



At Legis Tor, where a very interesting collection of eleven 

 huts was thoroughly excavated only last year, an urn, ten inches 

 in diameter and twelve deep, was found set in the ground in 

 place of a cooking hole ; its bottom had been broken by use, and 

 mended anciently with a lump of china cla} r , without its being 

 removed ; two cooking stones and some earth and ashes were 

 found in it, but there were no ashes round the outside ; frag- 

 ments of urns were also found in the cooking holes of the 

 other huts at this place, several of which were rudely ornamented, 

 but all were of very poor construction. 



Up to the end of last season seventy-nine huts which showed 

 signs of human occupancy had been explored in various parts of 

 Dartmoor, of which thirty-seven have yielded tools, flakes, and 

 cores of flint; twenty- six have shown remains of pottery ; thirty 

 had cooking holes, some of which contained round-bottomed 

 vessels of coarse pottery, red outside and black within ; twelve 

 have produced rubbing stones, and nearly all have contained 

 cooking stones. 



The long steep hill of Carnbre, near Redruth, with its 

 mediaeval tower at one end, and the Dunstanville monument at 

 the other end, is well known to all visitors to western Cornwall. 

 Here Dr. Borlase wandered and found various Druidic remains 

 which I entirely failed to identify when I visited the spot in 1869, 

 but both he and I were ignorant of what was really there 

 beneath our feet. It had long been known that there were a few 



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