54 THE OVEN-MOUNDS OF THE ABORIGINES IN VICTORIA. 
placed there? Now and again sharpening-stones are found about 
the mounds, but these were not sharpening-stones, and the number 
of them puts the cies AS of sharpening: stones a side. The same 
applies to the suggestion as ib 
the marrow-bones of the tee animals. The number of stones 
is altogether too great, and above all there was no necessity a 
arrange them so methodically in a circle around the oven. It must 
not be omitted to take proper notice of the fact that the stones of 
the circle have been somewhat disturbed. The treading of sheep 
and cattle will easily account for that. The fact remains that 
notwithstanding some disturbance, the evidence of the circular 
oubted. 
ectoenee these stones, bate as large as a man’s head, are 
way to be confounded with those built up into shelters or break- 
Winds in bleak localities on the great plains in the west of Victoria. 
ut the second case to be described presents us with an oven- 
mound surrounded with a circle which may be regarded as com- 
plate, although a few stones have been displaced. The se bee of 
our attention in this case is situated on the Cargerie Creek, ai 
about 150 yards from the east bank. Iti is about 14 feet by 13 feet 
in longer and shorter diameter, the stone oven in the centre being 
54 feet, and thethickness of ashes, charcoal, and stones, being about 
between the sons wpe of the mound and the circle of stones. 
be mentioned that the oven-mound with this ring of stones is 
situated in an angle, and not far from it the ends of basaltic rocks 
crop out, as in the case already described. 
While thus emo the fact of stone rings extending Sgr 
the oven-mounds of the aborigines, it may be noticed that the 
cular arrangement is rs carried out in the case in which a wins 
mound consists of — ~ a dozen stone ovens, formed in a 
circle around a central o 
Of course it is not our aera here to enter upon the subject of 
— mystic stone circles in Britain, India, and other countries, yet 
passing we may note the fact that there are such materials, 
which, along with others, will one day help to ae light on the 
origin and migration of the Australian race. Perhaps it should 
be mentioned here, that the magnificent stonehenges, consisting 
