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fragments of clay vessels, coarse and fine, ornamented and 
plain, and with animal bones, and stone implements of 
various kinds, such as chisels, scrapers, knives, and hammers, 
but the whole of the small island itself appears to be sown 
with these objects. While we were engaged in planning, I 
picked up several good specimens of them that were lying on 
the surface, or had been brought to light by the action of the 
waves. 
The third is 195 feet in diameter, and has been deformed 
by the cultivators of the land, many of its stones having 
been displaced. I was informed this year (1869) that the 
proprietor or occupier intended removing what remains of 
this circle, because the stones interfere with his agricultural 
operations. 
I know of one example only of a square of menhirs in 
Brittany, and this is in the Morbihan, on the borders of the 
parish of Erdeven, and not far from the gigantic Dolmen of 
Kerconno. The destination of this square I can simply 
guess at, and suppose that it served the same purpose as the 
circle. 
There are a few stone circles in Yorkshire, on which I 
wish to make two or three observations. My attention was 
drawn to them very recently by reading in the newspaper an 
extract from Mr. Wardelbs “ Historical Notices of Ilkley, 
BombahTs Moor, and Baildon Common.” His description 
is not quite accurate. From his account, I expected to find 
near the Hornclifie shooting-house, on Hawksworth Moor, a 
small circle of upright stones, enclosed in a second circle of 
stones set on edge, whereas I found a structure not closely 
answering this description. There are very few stones set 
on edge, and I think that originally very few, if any, of the 
others were so set, and there is no inner circle. There are a 
few small stones about a modern excavation in the centre, 
but they appear to have been thrown there at random. The 
