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ENGLAND.
Chap. IV.

to 340 feet[1] from crest to crest; but these dimensions must be taken as only approximative till a more careful survey is made than it was in my power to execute. Near, but not quite in the centre, stands a single splendid monolith; it may be 12 feet in height, but is more than twice the bulk of Long Meg. In Pennant's time there were four stones still standing in the centre, of which this was one, and probably there may originally have been

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Sketch Plan of King Arthur's Round Table, with the side, obliterated by the road, restored.

several more forming a small circle in the centre.[2] In his day also he learned that there were four stones—two pairs—standing in a gap in the vallum looking like the commencement of an avenue. The place, however, is too near Penrith, and stone is there too valuable to allow of such things escaping, so that nothing now remains which would enable us to restore this monument with certainty. Close by this is a third circle known as Arthur's Round Table.


  1. Pennant in his text calls the diameter 88 yards, but the scale attached to his plan makes it 110 yards nearly.
  2. 'Tour in Scotland, 1772,' pl. xxxvii. p. 276.