 One very perfect specimen is found in the corner of a very remarkable incloture, which is divided by irregular lines of upright stones. The hut is in a state comparatively perfect, the upper part only having fallen in. It appears to have been shaped like...  Transactions of the Plymouth Institution - Page 193by Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History Society - 1830 - 360 pagesFull view - About this book
 | English essays - 1831 - 628 pages
...most common, but some have a double circle. — •One very perfect specimen is found in the ^nrn.r of a very remarkable inclosure, which is divided by...It appears to have been shaped like a beehive, the walls being formed of large stones and turf, so placed as to terminate in a point. These huts have... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1831 - 740 pages
...double circle. — One very perfect specimen is found in the corner of a very remarkable incloture, which is divided by irregular lines of upright stones....It appears to have been shaped like a beehive, the walls being formed of large stones and turf, so placed as to terminate in a point. These huts have... | |
 | Samuel Rowe - Dartmoor (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...where the hut is in a state comparatively perfect, having been constructed entirely of stone and turf, the upper part only having fallen in. It appears to...a bee-hive, the wall being formed of large stones, which seem to have been chosen with care, for the purpose of forming the widely arched roof; and which... | |
 | E. Croydon - Torquay (England) - 1854 - 312 pages
...circular foundation has survived the ravages of time. In this single specimen the upper part only has fallen in. It appears to have been shaped like a bee-hive, the wall being formed of large stones, which seem to have been chosen with care, for the purpose of forming the widely-arched roof, and which... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...upper part only having fallen in. " It appears," says Mr. Rowe in his " Perambulation of Dartmoor," " to have been shaped like a bee-hive, the wall being formed of large stones which seem to have been chosen with care for the purpose of forming the widely arched roof; and which... | |
 | 1863 - 304 pages
...circular foundation has survived the ravages of time. In this single specimen the upper part only has fallen in. It appears to have been shaped like a bee-hive, the wall being formed of large stones, which seem to have been chosen with care, for the purpose of forming the widely-arched roof, and which... | |
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