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hut circles, and the remains of walls for the protection of the 

 hill ; but, when Mr. Thurstan Peter undertook the excavation of 

 the circles in 1R95, it was his young daughter who induced him 

 to extend his researches to the spaces between the naturally 

 placed boulders near the circles, with the result that some 

 of them also were found to have been roofed in and used as 

 dwellings. The circular huts appear to have been of the same 

 type as those at Grimspound, but larger, the diameter of one 

 being as much as twenty-six feet ; some of them had hearths and 

 cooking holes like those on Dartmoor, but there were no raised 

 platforms. A few broken spindle whorls, some fragments of 

 pottery of a better kind than that found on Dartmoor, some 

 stone mullers and rubbers, a polished celt, some flint spear- 

 heads, knives, flakes, and cores, and about five hundred flint 

 arrowheads of all shapes, — thirty of them in faultless condition 

 and of most beautiful workmanship, — were the reward of the 

 exploration of nearly one hundred hut-circles and inter-boulder 

 dwellings. 



The fact that so many arrowheads and several spearheads 

 have been found at Carnbre, while none have been found at 

 Grimspound, and not many on Dartmoor at all, has been held to 

 indicate that the Cornishmen were a warlike people, either from 

 choice or necessity, while those of Dartmoor were more peaceful 

 and pastoral ; and it has also been pointed out that Grimspound 

 is commanded from higher ground on three sides, and is rather 

 a protected village or cattle station than a fortress like Carnbre. 

 Seeing, however, that arrows are useful for hunting as well as for 

 fighting, it may be questioned whether this difference (should it 

 be sustained by future explorations) may not be due to racial 

 or tribal peculiarities, or may not rather show that Grimspound 

 belongs to a somewhat earlier period than Carnbre ; and this 

 view may be supported by a reference to the great quantity of 

 " stone rows " on Dartmoor, the like of which cannot be found in 

 Cornwall or anywhere else. The existence of flint weapons in 

 Cornwall opens up an interesting question, for there is little. 

 if any, flint in the county suitable for them. In the wildest part 

 of it, between the Cheesewring and Brown Willy, is a piece of 

 water, called Dozmaie Pool, from the peat on the banks of which 

 great numbers of beautiful flakes have been obtained, but the 



