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 56 A History of Art in Sardinia and Jud^a. prostrate on the floor of a circular area paved with large stones, surrounded by a row of smaller ones, which stood formerly upright, but are scattered about at the present day. The central menhir, oval shaped rather than perfectly round, measured, when Fig. 45.— Giant's Tomb. La Marmora. At'as, Plate III. intact, 6 m. 50 c. in height. It bears evident marks of the chisel, whilst the two lateral appear to be of unhewn stones. Our plate shows the monument as La Marmora found it at the beginning of this century, when La Perda Lunga was still standing. 1 On the testimony of this and subsequent travellers, •- 3.* Fig. 46.— Raised Stones. La Marmora. Atlas, Tlate II. similar monuments exist on various points of Sardinia and the Baléares; 2 nor are cromlechs of rare occurrence in the former island, where, for the most part, they are arranged in elliptical figures, the diameter of which varies from 10 to 15 metres; 2 La Marmora, Voyage en Sardaigne, pp. 2, 3, Plate II. fig. 2. 2 Ibid. p. r.