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 A HISTORY OF CORNWALL Stonetown in honour of the circle. This is the smallest circle in Corn- wall and stands in other ways in a class by itself. The diameters are 37 ft. and 39 ft., so the circle is undoubtedly small, and the large and for the most part shapeless masses of stone seem greatly out of proportion to the size of the ring. The stones are of quartz rock ; seven are standing and one is fallen and broken. Quartz is rarely used in these megalithic monuments, and its use here is probably attributable to the distance from the granite and the still more brittle nature of the local stone, clay slate ; while the friability of the quartz will account for the dimensions of the stones used and the absence of any attempt at symmetry. N 10 f O S&a-U { Put DuLOE ClRCH. Mr. C. W. Dymond, to whom we are indebted for the loan of the accompanying plan and sketches, has very fully described this circle in the "Journal of the British Archceological Association (February, 1882). There is no very early reference known, the first being by Britton and Brayley in 1801 : Within a furlong north-east of the church is a small Druidual Circle, that has not hitherto been noticed. It consists of seven or eight stones, one of which is about nine feet in height : four are upright ; the others are either broken or concealed by a hedge, which divides the circle ; part being in an orchard and part in an adjoining field. 1 1 Beauties of England and Waks, ii. 400-1. 400