Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways . XI.—RKMAINS OK WATCH HOUSK KXCLOSKO WIIHIN Iin-. KAR I IIWORKSDEKKNIHNf; THK. hlAV IoND ( li i ( 11A NCl ONIUR Y RIM;. the event of its destruction, the Inhabitants of iIk; Rinewould have been temporariU reduced to the utmoststraits, and in this lact one may fmd an explanationof the amount of labour expench-d not onl\ in itsconstruction, but on its j)rotection. This dew-pond, and Cattle -Ways of sixty or seventy feet in di;imeter, necessarily anelaborate structure, built, as we have pointed the age of any metal implement, was a workof incr
Neolithic dew-ponds and cattle-ways . XI.—RKMAINS OK WATCH HOUSK KXCLOSKO WIIHIN Iin-. KAR I IIWORKSDEKKNIHNf; THK. hlAV IoND ( li i ( 11A NCl ONIUR Y RIM;. the event of its destruction, the Inhabitants of iIk; Rinewould have been temporariU reduced to the utmoststraits, and in this lact one may fmd an explanationof the amount of labour expench-d not onl\ in itsconstruction, but on its j)rotection. This dew-pond, and Cattle -Ways of sixty or seventy feet in di;imeter, necessarily anelaborate structure, built, as we have pointed the age of any metal implement, was a workof incredible labour, comparable in amount to thatexpended in building the Rings themselves. It is. Xn.—VIEW OK DKW-lONl) NKAR \ KINi;. 1 KKKSCOVERING CHAXCTONHURV KINC. SEEN IN THE DISTANCE. worthy ol note that, although it cannot be perceivedfrom below, it is well in view Ironi Clianctonburv Rin;^itself But a short tlistance lies between the pond andthe Ring ; and as one traverses this intermediate space,a fresh element of interest may be discerned bv the -o Neolithic Dew-Ponds experienced eye. As the trround steeply rises to theRiii!^. the remains of about half-a-dozen circular moundsmay be traced, lying immediately outside the Ring onthe eastern slope. These tumuli are of present humaninterest in that they have been placed in that spot uponwhich the rays of the rising sun will first strike. Therethe sleepers await the Dawn of the New Day. The Ring surrounds the apex of one of thehighest downs in the South of England. It is the mostconspicuous position in a whole system of settlementson the South Downs. It projects like a promontoryfrom the South Downs into the Suss
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