The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . IjjjjJjjjjJ Plans of Trippet Stones at Blisland and Leaze. To face page to /r€t Thtn tmf.—AitnA ar^J. ait-cA in. ft. I i \ \> NINE STONES .B «?•••-js t /«^ ^. ^. 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 othercircle in Cornwall has a central stone of undoubted antiquity, , and the possession of such a central monolith marks themout as of exceptional importance, which appears to have been
The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . IjjjjJjjjjJ Plans of Trippet Stones at Blisland and Leaze. To face page to /r€t Thtn tmf.—AitnA ar^J. ait-cA in. ft. I i \ \> NINE STONES .B «?•••-js t /«^ ^. ^. 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 othercircle in Cornwall has a central stone of undoubted antiquity, , and the possession of such a central monolith marks themout as of exceptional importance, which appears to have been the case,since one is mentioned in a Welsh triad and the other has this elaborateand unique circumvallation. The earthwork seems of too slight acharacter 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 clearlymarked, and was perhaps designed to admit processions of some sort ; itschoice of direction, towards Trippet Stones, may have been more thanaccident
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