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become very rare, and are quite absent in East England, save for the group including Kits Coty House near Ayles- ford in Kent. In other words they occur in the peninsula of S.W. England, and perhaps are specially abundant along a neck which gives a short way across the peninsula and avoids the long sea journey around Lands End. In Wales their distribution is very characteristic (14). (Fig. 8.) Monmouthshire has one at Newchurch and re- mains of one at St. Mellons. Glamorganshire has had them near Barry (St. Nicholas and St. Lytham's), and at Pentyrch and Marcross. They are thus connected with the coast lands here. In Gower is the famous Dolmen of Cefn Bryn (Coetan Arthur). In Carmarthenshire they have occurred at Marros, and at Laugharne near the south coast, also at Dolwilym near Llanglydwen (Pembrokeshire border), and near Conwil Elfed. Pembrokeshire has a large number either still re- maining or known to have existed. They are most abundant on the coastal moorlands of the north, from Moylgrove to Pencaer, and from Pencaer to St. Davids, but remains are said to be known from Solva, Little Newcastle, Ambleston, Maenclochog, Llangolman, Llanycefn, Lampeter Velfrey, and Begelly, i.e., more or less along a trans-peninsular zone, with which Dolwilym may also be connected, while Conwil Elfed is not far off and suggests another trans- peninsular route. Nearer the end of the peninsula in Pembrokeshire they occur or have occurred at Manorbeer, Newton Rhoscrowther, Steynton (near Milford Haven), and Burton, near New Milford, etc. (Fig. 8.) In Cardiganshire and Merionethshire their distri- bution is most characteristic. In Cardiganshire one occurs