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I guess this is what you read
"“Fronting the gate of Botalac town place”, writes Borlase, “there is a most remarkable miz maze, if I may so term it, of stones set on end, which if Ducaleon himself had thrown behind his back could not sufficiently stood up in greater disorder than they at present appear, but viewing them diligently this March 6th, 1737, I find the largest circle monument there of any I yet have met with, with several subordinate circles, some touching the circumferences, some breaking within it; together with two large erected stones, not many paces from the principal ring.”"
http://west-penwith.org.uk/just4.htm

so even his description admits it's a right muddle - so he's seeing circles where there weren't any? (ah the bind of the enthusiastic antiquarian, I'm sure we've all been there?)

Smart. That was a separate text. So there is stuff out there about it.

My pics have:

William Borlase wrote:
Again, some of these circles include, and intersect one another, as in the curious cluster of circles at Botalleck, in the seeming confusion of which, I cannot but think that there was some mystical meaning, or at least, distinct allotment to particular uses. Some of these might be employed for the sacrifice, and to prepare, kill, examine, and burn the Victiom, others alloted to to Prayer, others to the Feasting of the Preists, others for the station of those who devoted the Victims: whilst on Druid was preparing the Victim in one place, anohter was adoring on another, and describing the limits of his Temple: a thord was going round at the extremity of another Circle of Stones: and, likely, amny Druids were to follow one another in these mysterious Rounds: others were buy in the Rights of Augury, that so all the Rites, each in its proper place, might proceed at one and the same time, and under inspection of the High Preists; who, by comparing and observing the indications of the whole, might judge of the Will of the Gods with the greater certainty.
He goes on a bit in the same vein for the rest of the page.

Rhiannon wrote:
(ah the bind of the enthusiastic antiquarian, I'm sure we've all been there?)
Hah! I've lost track of the number of cup marks I have seen in concrete ;)