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Gentleman's Magazine 1868 part 1 p314.

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Stone Circles

page 308:-

NOTES ON STONE CIRCLES. / BY J. T. BLIGHT, F.S.A.

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The article, pp.308 to 319, has some idiosyncratic ideas about stone circles, mostly in Cornwall, and, page 314:-
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... there are many circles whose diameters are so great that it cannot be conceived that there ever existed within them mounds so vast as to occupy all the enclosed space. These larger circles should rather be regarded as great enclosing outworks for the protection of a group of barrows, or lesser circles, as was probably the case with Long Meg and her Daughters in Cumberland, ...
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