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away, easily seen from it, stands Dr. Petrie’s No. 4. This 
cromleac is quite perfect, and stands about five feet high. There 
are five supports for the capstone, which measures about fourteen 
feet in circumference. It stands near the middle of a field, and 
formerly had a stone circle around it about forty feet in 
diameter,, consisting of forty large stones. When Dr. Petrie 
visited it in 1837, he found twenty-one of these still there. In 
1883 these were all gone but one ! On enquiring of the farmer 
before-mentioned how this was, he told me the twenty-one 
stones were all there still, but twenty had been buried by the 
man who held the farm before him, adding— “And he got no 
good by burying them.” The former tenant feared to destroy 
the stones, and so dug a large hole at the base of each, and then 
tipped twenty of them into the holes made, “ and there they 
are still,” said my informant. He would have tipped over the 
last stone, but the agent, hearing what he was doing, came and 
stopped him just in time to save it. On account of the stones 
being “ still there,” though invisible, I have ventured to name 
this “ The Cromleac of the Phantom Stones.” Although there 
are no stones placed as a porch outside the supporting stones, 
yet the idea of having a special entrance is evident in the con- 
struction of the entrance. See sketch No. 3. 
The remains of at least two very fine circles are near this 
cromleac, one of them containing a ruined cromleac, and the 
other having been a double circle, the outer circle being formed 
of very large stones. The chamber of the ruined cromleac was 
examined about fifty years ago by a gentleman named Walker, 
who found human remains in it. About a dozen were thus 
examined, and at least ten of them contained an interment of 
human remains, and in one instance the cromleac contained an 
urn, broken. This was found in Dr. Petrie’s No. 17 — a double 
circle. 
Crossing the road again, there stands a little way south-west 
of the farm-house a large heap of stones which have been 
gathered off the land. Under this heap there is a perfect 
