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its kind, but yet a patriarch holding the post, no sinecure, of 
highest tree on the Plym valley. 
As there was no straight piece of wood longer than two inches 
in the whole, and even as firewood it did not seem a profitable 
investment, there were hopes that it might long continue in its 
honoured position. But last winter it disappeared, and on ex- 
amination of the spot I found it had been cut down ; by whom 
or for what possible reason I cannot ascertain. It seems a pity 
that some people will indulge in purposeless destruction. 
RINGMOOR AND LEGIS TOR. 
To return to the numerous antiquities we have passed in this 
hasty run up stream. The first to be noticed is a circle of stones on 
Ringmoor, which has been marked on the Ordnance map as a hut- 
circle, probably because it evidently is not one. It is seventy-five 
feet in diameter, and consisted of a number of upright stones, of 
which at present twenty-one can still be traced, spaced at some 
considerable distance apart, presenting, in fact, all the character- 
istics of the so-called " sacred circle." The stones average three feet 
high by two feet square. 
At Trowlesworthy there yet remain to be noticed the fortifica- 
tions which overlook Spanish Lake, and extend in a broken line 
from Shell Top to Great and Little Trowlesworthy Tors, and down 
to the river. 
A wall extends from Little Trowlesworthy Tor in a northerly 
direction to the river, and has at several points openings which 
show in many cases signs of having once been fortified. 
There is an outwork near the small stream known as Spanish 
Lake, and in a line between Hen Tor and Trowlesworthy, which 
presents some curious features. A clitter of rocks to a certain 
extent covers the best ford on this stream, where its high banks 
are merged in the flat tableland from which it rises. At this 
point a wall, of which I have placed a plan before you, has been 
built, so as to make use of and improve on the natural advantages 
of the place. (See figure B.) There is another outwork of similar 
character on Legis Tor, to which I shall refer later on. 
The late Mr. Spence Bate mentions the ruins of a dismantled 
cromlech or kistvaen in this neighbourhood ; but I do not remember 
ever having observed it, and have not had time to make a special 
