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XXXIV. Description of the Druid Temple lately discovered on the top of the Hill near St. Hillary in Jersey. Communicated by Mr. Molseworth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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It is sixty-six feet in circumference, composed of forty-five large stones, measuring seven feet in height, six in breadth, four in thickness, containing four perfect lodges [or cells] and one destroyed. The supposed entrance in it may be called a subterraneous passage, faces the East and measures fifteen feet in length, four feet two inches and a half in breadth from the inside of the two outward pillars or stones, in height two feet, each pillar being one foot nine inches and a half thick.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1787

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