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From William Copeland Borlase's 'Naenia Cornubiae', 1879. https://archive.org/stream/naeniacornubiaed00borluoft#page/280/mode/1up

Comments (7)
My favourite. The fallen stone on the left has been re-erected now.	Posted by thesweetcheat 2nd April 2015ce
A fabulous series of sketches Rhiannon. Thanks for putting them up on TMA.	Posted by tjj 2nd April 2015ce
It's a pleasure, and it helps that Mr Borlase makes it very easy to work out which ones they are, June! His Irish book is on the Internet Archive too but I'm not so good at identifying those, there are so many and I don't recognise the names.	Posted by Rhiannon 2nd April 2015ce
Thanks Rhiannon, I'll have a look to see if I recognise anything. I only really know the stone circles in West Cork and the Beara Peninsula.	Posted by tjj 3rd April 2015ce
Naenia Cornubiae is a great book, I have a reprinted version from about 15 years ago. I didn't realise WC Borlase travelled to Ireland. I think he was the grandson of the earlier (more famous) William Borlase. I've only ever seen one copy of *his* Cornwall book and it was mighty expensive.	Posted by thesweetcheat 3rd April 2015ce
If you post the link Rhiannon I would enjoy trying to figure some of them out.	Posted by ryaner 3rd April 2015ce
Here you are, Ryaner, happy browsing - https://archive.org/details/texts?and[]=borlase+dolmens&sort=titleSorter I think he travelled all over the place so there are even sections about stones in India and Africa.	Posted by Rhiannon 4th April 2015ce
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