Old England: A Pictorial Museum (page 9/33)

34.---Stones at Stanton Drew

34.—Stones at Stanton Drew

Stanton Drew stone circles lie on private land today, so you need permission to visit them. The Great Circle is one of the largest megalithic stone circles in England. The date from the [...] [more...]

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35.---Round Tower of Donoughmore.

35.—Round Tower of Donoughmore.

“It is easy to understand how the same religion prevailing in neighbouring countries might produce monuments of a similar character; but we find the same in the far east, in lands separated from ours by pathless deserts and wide seas. So it is with those remarkable structures, the Round Towers of Ireland; which were considered ancient even in the twelfth [...] [more...]

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36.---Kit's Coty House near Aylesford, Kent

36.—Kit’s Coty House near Aylesford, Kent

Kit’s Coty House is a neolithic chambered tomb. It is mentioned in Pepys’ diary, but has suffered damage since this plate was made. [more...]

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37.---Kit's Coty House.

37.—Kit’s Coty House.

Sheep graze by the neolithic burial tomb while two shepherds wait. [more...]

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38.---King's Coty House

38.—King’s Coty House

Another picture of King’s Coty’s House; compare Fig. 37. There is also a picture of this in Francis Grose’s Antiquities. [more...]

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39.---Trevethy Stone

39.—Trevethy Stone

Trevethy Stone, also known as Trethevy Quoit, is a Domen or Cromlech near Liskeard in Cornwall. [more...]

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40.---Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey

40.—Cromlech at Plas Newydd, Anglesey

See also Grose’s Antiquities for an older engraving of this neolithic burial tomb. [more...]

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41.---Constantine Tolman, Cornwall

41.—Constantine Tolman, Cornwall

I believe this Tolman was destroyed in 1869, although I found no reference to it at the Constantine Village Web site. [more...]

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