A. D. PASSMORE AND THE STONE CIRCLES OF NORTH WILTSHIRE 209 
articles, October, 1867 to June, 1868; G. Toplis, (ed) 
Fefferies’ Land. A History of Swindon and its Environs, 
Simpkin, Marshall, London, 1896, 134-5. 
10 A.L. Lewis, 1912. 
| Fir Clump stone circle: R. H. Reiss, in litt., 23 January 
1996; National Monuments Record, Swindon, in litt., 
13 February, 1996; WANHM 96, 2003, 222. 
Swindon old and new churches: Pevsner, 323. 
3 J. B. Jones, ‘Wiltshire’s oldest sarsens ‘, WANHM 53, 
1950, 131-3. 
‘Seasonal gatherings in Brittany: T. Cato Worsfold, 
The French Stonehenge, Bemrose, London, 1898, 7, 20, 
21-2; Burl, 2000, 341. 
Concentric stone circles in Britain and Ireland: Burl, 
2000, 316. 
'© Long single rows of stones in south-west England: 
Burl, 1993, 91-116; Dartmoor, 236-7, Cornwall, 236, 
Exmoor, 237. 
7 Single row at Broome: Aubrey, 1980, 107. 
'8Langdean Bottom: Passmore, ‘Langdean stone 
circle’, WANHM 42, 1924, 364-6. Plan. 
Interpretations of Langdean Bottom: almost 
destroyed: A. Service & J. Bradbury, The Standing 
Stones of Europe, J. M. Dent, 1993, 224; stone circle: 
Pevsner, 231; round barrow: Piggott, 1973, 332; stone 
circle?: Mortimer, 1997, 24-6; National Monuments 
Record, Mortimer, ibid, 26. 
20 Double row of stones: Pevsner, 231; L. Grinsell, 1957, 
67. Hut-circle: Burl, Prehistoric Avebury, Yale U.P, 
2002, 268. 
21 Dartmoor double rows: R. H. Worth, Worth’s 
Dartmoor, eds. G. M. Spooner & FE. M. Russell, David 
& Charles, Newton Abbot, 1967, 99-132; Burl, 1993, 
75,78-88, 233-5. 
Langdean Bottom and an exodus from Dartmoor: 
Burl, 2000, 125; Burl, Prehistoric Avebury, Yale U. P, 
2002, 268. 
3 Row of houses: Grinsell, 1957, 67. A definite 
rectangle: Mortimer, 25-6. 
4 Rollright Stones: G. Lambrick, The Rollright Stones, 
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Cornish Archaeology 3, 1964, 10-12; Maumbury Rings, 
H. St. George Gray, ‘Fourth interim report on the 
excavations at Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, 1912’, 
Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist & Ant. Field Club 34, 15-16; 
‘Fifth interim report’, [bid 35, 1914, 4, 13, Plate 2. 
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