THE MOORLAND PLYM. 
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This single row is 254 feet long, and at present consists of 
thirty-eight stones. At its western end it terminates in a small 
menhir, which stands four feet in height, and has a girth of eight 
feet at the base. For 160 feet from this point the row is fairly 
continuous, with only occasional short intervals where blocks have 
either been removed, or have fallen and been buried. 
In this length there are thirty-one stones ; and originally these 
were apparently spaced about five feet apart, centre to centre. 
After this fairly perfect portion comes a gap of fifty-eight feet, 
and then the row recommences, and contains six more stones of a 
small size, and ends in another pillar of 3ft. 7 in. in height, and 
5ft. 8in. girth at base. This is a broad flat stone, and the last left 
standing of those forming a circle of about twenty feet diameter. 
The whole has a bearing fifteen degrees south of east, magnetic, 
and points very nearly to the circle at the end of the avenue 
previously mentioned. It is not perfectly straight, but is slightly 
convex to the northwards. The angle between the directions of 
the avenue and row is seventy-five degrees, or over the fifth of a 
circle. 
About 440 yards to the north are the ruins of a square building. 
The main block is thirty-four feet long by eighteen feet wide, and 
is divided by a stone partition into two compartments. The walls 
are uniformly three feet in thickness, and built of untrimmed 
granite blocks. There is a projection on the south side measuring 
eighteen feet by fourteen feet, and forming a porch. On the 
south-west corner of the main building a small shelter has been 
raised, but this is evidently a later erection. (See plan.) 
The date of this building cannot be fixed with certainty, but 
from the style of the masonry, and the thickness of the walls, it 
should be early. Probably it was in use at the same time as at 
least some of the many hut- circles in the neighbourhood. At 
other points in the valley we shall find that we can trace the 
transition from round to square buildings, and from rough Cyclo- 
pean masonry to more finished work, in which the stones have 
been squared and regularly bedded. 
Some old enclosures in the immediate vicinity have been modi- 
fied, apparently to suit the convenience of the owner of this 
house. 
Near this building, and a little to the north of it, is a fortified 
enclosure, first noted, I believe, by the late Mr. Spence Bate, and 
