Text Appearing Before Image: IjjjjJjjjjJ Plans of Trippet Stones at Blisland and Leaze. To face page 390. Text Appearing After Image: to /r€t Thtn tmf.—AitnA ar^J. ait-cA in. ft. I i \ \> NINE STONES .B «■•••-js t Ij.MdJ /«^ ^. ^. J. f^az . Plans of Stripple Stones at Blisland and Nine Stones at Altarnun. To face page 390. STONE CIRCLES size is above that of any other circle in the county. Only one other circle in Cornwall has a central stone of undoubted antiquity, viz. Boscawen-un, and the possession of such a central monolith marks them out as of exceptional importance, which appears to have been the case, since one is mentioned in a Welsh triad and the other has this elaborate and unique circumvallation. The earthwork seems of too slight a character for defensive purposes and it is likely that here, as at Stone-henge, the bank was intended as an enclosure—it may be a sacred enclosure—giving a finish to the monument. The entrance (S. 79° W.) is clearly marked, and was perhaps designed to admit processions of some sort; its choice of direction, towards Trippet Stones, may have been more than accident
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