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Allen believes to be mediaeval, while some (footprints and 

 initials) are modern (see cut fig. 1, p. 15). 



Both these eminent Archaeologists (and also Mr. Lewis, 

 as stated above) describe the monument as a circle, and 

 there seems no reason to doubt that they regarded the 

 stones as being in tlieir original position ; and yet, as the 

 following series of letters will show, there is a good deal 

 of evidence, amounting to several independent accounts, 

 that early in the present century the stones were not in 

 their present position, but lay " scattered about," and 

 that up to the end of last century, if not later, they 

 formed part of a dolmen in or on a tumulus of sand placed 

 some quarter 6i a mile to the south-west of the present 

 site. The several accounts given in the letters are the 

 recollections of well-known Liverpool gentlemen as to 

 what they were told by members of a former generation 

 who were eye-witnesses of the scattered condition of the 

 stones, of the tumulus of sand, of the more or less ruined 

 dolmen, and of the cinerary urns which were disclosed on 

 removing the sand for building purposes. So far as I can 

 discover there is no one now living in the neighbourhood 

 who remembers the stones in their former condition and 

 position, although some few years ago there can be no 

 doubt (from the evidence in the letters) such testimony 

 could have been obtained. 



It is important to notice (see Mr. Eyley's letter) that 

 an old map of Liverpool (Enfield's, 1768) confirms the 

 account given by Mr. Cox, Dr. Newton and others as to 

 the position of the tumulus. 



As a number of members of the Liverpool Biological 

 Society (before which Society this evidence of a former 

 dolmen and tumulus was first produced) have expressed 

 the opinion that a permanent record should be made of 

 the information now collected, the Council of the Society 



