[Footnote 183: 'Archæologia Cambriensis,' third series, vol. xii. p. 54. A fancy plan of the same circle appears in the same volume, but is utterly untrustworthy. It is reproduced by Waring, 'Mon.' &c. pl. xli.] [Footnote 184: 'Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries,' iii. p. 225.] [Footnote 185: The Hon. W. C. Stanley enumerates by name twenty-four in Anglesea.--'Archæologia Cambrensis,' fourth series, vol. i. p. 58.] [Footnote 186: Tacitus, 'Vita Agricolæ,' chap. v.] [Footnote 187: 'Somerset Archæo. Soc. Proceedings,' viii. p. 51.] [Footnote 188: 'Archæologia,' xix. p. 43 _et seq._] [Footnote 189: 'Journal of the Ethnological Society,' January, 1871, p. 416.] [Footnote 190: Vol. xi. p. 315 _et seq._] [Footnote 191: 'Pro. Soc. Ant.,' second series, ii. 275. Thurnam, 'Archæologia,' xlii. 217.] [Footnote 192: 'Archæologia,' xix. p. 43.] [Footnote 193: 'Archæologia Cambrensis,' fourth series vol. i. p. 51 _et seq._] [Footnote 194: For Rodmarton, see 'Proceedings Soc. Ant.' _l. s. c._; for Cornish, see paper by M. Brash, 'Gent. Mag.,' 1864.] [Footnote 195: 'Archæologia Cambrensis,' third series, xi. p. 284.] [Footnote 196: The following particulars are taken from a paper by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, in the first volume, fourth series, of the 'Archæologia Cambrensis,' 1870. It is not only the last, but the best description which I know, and, being from the pen of so accurate an observer, I have relied on it exclusively.] [Footnote 197: 'Ten Years' Diggings,' p. 87.] [Footnote 198: Dare one suggest Gower?] [Footnote 199: Is this the same word as "Cotty," as applied to Kit's Cotty-house, in Kent? It looks very like it.--Coity?] [Footnote 200: Herbert, 'Cyclops Christianus,' p. 35.] CHAPTER V. IRELAND. MOYTURA. It is probable, after all, that it is from the Irish annals that the greatest amount of light will be thrown on the history and uses of the Megalithic monuments. Indeed, had not Lord Melbourne's Ministry in 1839, in a fit of ill-timed parsimony, abolished the Historical Commission attached to the Irish Ordnance Survey, we should not now be groping in the dark. Had they even retained the services of Dr. Petrie till the time of his death, he would have left very little to be desired in this respect. But nothing of the sort was done. The fiat went forth. All the documents and information collected during fourteen years' labour by a most competent staff of explorers were cast aside--all the members dismissed on the shortest possible notice, and our knowledge of the ancient history and antiquities of Ireland thrown back half a century, at least.[201]