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Rude stone monuments in all countries; their age and uses (1872)

Fergusson, James, 1808-1886 · London, J. Murray · leaf 88

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axis of the great one, but on its north-eastern side. Themore northern one was apparently 350 feet in diameter, the other325 feet.^ In the centre of the northern one stood what is herecalled a cove, apparently consisting of three upright stonessupporting a capstone—a dolmen, in fact, such as we… … frequently meet witli in the following pages. In the southerncircle there was only o)ie stone obelisk or menhir. These factswe gather from Stukeley andColt Hoare, for all is now socompletely ruined and destroyed,that without their descriptionno one could now make even anapproximate plan of tlie…

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