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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
DRIZZLECOMBE. 
Above this valley to the east are the heights of Eastern Tor 
and Whittenknowle. 
On Eastern Tor a portion of the summit has been enclosed, 
while among Whittenknowle Rocks are scattered thickly, and 
apparently without order, the intermingled ruins of round huts 
and square buildings. This settlement in fact seems to represent 
a transition period; possibly, however, the square buildings may 
be comparatively recent, though this does not seem probable. 
They are of the rudest possible type, and vary from twenty feet 
long by fifteen broad to thirty feet by twenty. 
This settlement overlooks the most important antiquities that 
will come under our notice this evening. 
On the eastern side of the valley known as Drizzlecombe, 
which joins the main valley of the Plym just opposite Shaver- 
combe, stands a group of remains hitherto, as far as I can discover, 
undescribed. 
They consist of three long rows of stones, each terminated at 
one extremity by a fallen menhir, and at the other by a barrow ; 
associated with these are two large tumuli, and a large enclosure 
surrounding two hut-circles. 
At a short distance to the north there is a very fine kistvaen, 
from which the cover-stone has been removed, and there are 
remains apparently of a stone row leading from this to a small 
circle of stones, standing and fallen, and probably surrounding 
another as yet unopened kist. Several other enclosures, all con- 
taining hut-circles, are to be found on the slope of this hill. 
That all this should have hitherto been either overlooked or 
regarded as unworthy of description, is the more remarkable, in 
that the remains cover in all a length of 1418 feet. 
Finding that the Ordnance surveyors were blind to the merits 
of all or most antiquities other than tumuli (a term, by the way, 
which they use to cover a multitude of facts), I have in this, as 
in all other cases, taken measurements myself, and have prepared 
the plan which is now before you. (See plan.) 
Starting at the down stream end, we have first a fallen menhir, 
consisting of a granite block 12 ft. 6 in. long by 5 ft. wide at 
the larger, and 1 ft. 5 in. at the smaller end, having a uniform 
thickness of 1 ft. 6 in. or thereabouts. 
