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 ïQ4 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud.f.a. the wall when it consisted of but one ring of stones. 1 A dolmen, or more properly " table stone," implies a gateway, such as is formed by a trilithon, or menhirs and dolmens pierced with a hole pocco CXjO 8 p

Fig. 198. — Plan of Stone Circle at Minieh. Quarterly Statements, 1882, p. 72. (Figs. 195, 196). 2 Certain circles formed by concentric rows of stones placed on the ground, and an open space or avenue of about 1 m. 25 c. interposing, measure no less than 180 metres in dia- meter. In or near these circles are dol- mens, believed by Major Conder to have been altars ; he would include in this class dolmens that were neither covered by a mound nor closed by a cairn, 3 consisting of two stones about one metre in height, which sustain a third or table of different degrees of flatness (Fig. 199). 1882. - Ibid., p. 10. PP- 75-77- Quarterly Statements, Quarterly Statements, p. 70, 8 Ibid.,