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NOTES ON GEOLOGICAL RESULTS. 



floor on which the stones have been placed and on which the 

 men of the day walked. We have been fortunate enough to 

 find flint chips and cores in sufficient numbers to establish the 

 places to be one used by the prehistoric men. 



As regards the circle we have excavated — there is no 

 possible doubt that it is the work of man, but, as far as we 

 have gone, it is a circle only, not a dolmen. There is an 

 alignment of stone starting from the circle which we have not 

 yet uncovered ; but these we know to be loose stones of the 

 same sizes as those of the circle. Beyond the circle and 

 above the alignment is a large stone looking like an outcrop of 

 rock, for which indeed we at first took it. 



On our third visit, we were but three workers, hence 

 could not do much ; but we determined the large stone to be a 

 large, loose and weathered stone, and that it rested on a flat 

 surface of stone which we had not time to clear. The flat 

 stone is large enough to be a capstone and there is loose clay 

 below it. These stones have other smaller ones in such 

 positions as point to their being trigs or supports. 



The whole must be uncovered as soon as possible. Flint 

 chips and pebbles have been found in the clay to the very 

 bottom of our excavation. 



The stones have been in position so long that the line of 

 the clay filling is visible by decompositon of the stones.* 



* For fuller details see special report in this number. 



