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Druidic Antiquities. 



[No. 12, NEW SEEIES. 



founded with the Hare or Hoar stones so called in England, and 

 met with in India, as well ; which were in both cases, and still 

 are in the latter, used to mark out the limits of pasturage, and 

 cultivation. Many of these boundary stones still exist in England ; 

 and in Wales where they are called Maen hir. They are very 

 common in India. I saw two, side hy side, and each ten feet high 

 in a field, in the neighbourhood of Ballapoor in Mysore. Mention 

 is made in Scripture of the use of such stones in the Patriarchal 

 times. I give drawings of a Druidic stone in the Salem district 

 and a group of three in Monmouthshire. 



Piles or Circular Stones. 



At Courtallum in the province of Tinnevelly in the South of 

 India, are three remarkable stones, of great size, poised in a sin- 

 gular manner, one over the other, on the ledge of a mountain. 

 Their appearance from below has occasioned the name of *' The 

 Turk's Head" to be bestowed upon them. I have preserved a 

 drawing of these stones, but my recollection of them is very im- 

 perfect. I am disposed to associate them with other Druidic al 

 remains in this country. 



The Cheese Wring is a pile of rude stones rising to the height 

 of thirty-two feet, and standing near the top of a hill, in the parish 

 of St. Clear in Cornwall. The name is derived from the shape of 

 the stones which is that of a large cheese. There are eight stones 

 lying above each other, the uppermost was formerly a Logan or 

 rocking stone, but the equipoise no longer exists. On the same 

 hill are many other large stones, one of which is eleven yards long 

 and nine broad. St. Clear also boasts of the Hurlers which when 

 perfect consisted of three continuous circles of upright stones from 

 three to five feet in height. All these stone remains are ofDruidi- 

 cal origin. The Hurlers are precisely similar to the stone rings I 

 have seen on the Neilgherries. 



Contents of the Cairns. 

 In enumerating the contents of the cairns of the Neilgherry Hills 

 in a former number of this Journal, I mentioned that I had found 

 beads, or nuts of crystal, of an oval shape, and pierced longitudi- 

 nally as though to receive a thread by which they might be sus- 

 pended to the neck or arm of the wearer, It is very remarkable 



