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distinguishable from the tracks made by animals or men only by the fact that 
they formed closed circuits or open-ended arcs, as the case might be. 
A small exploratory section was cut into one of them in 1947. The marking 
chosen was one of a pair situated on a hill called Hayhope Knowe on the north 
west flank of the Cheviot massif (fig. 1). The pair, running 2 metres apart, en 
closed an area measuring 90 metres in length by 40 metres in width, within which 
were several shallow grooves taking the forms of complete rings as well as arcs, 
together with some small oval or crescentic depressions. The exploratory trench 
revealed that beneath the slight depression representing the outer member of 
the pair, there lay a continuous narrow trench filled with rubble and packing- 
stones, among which could be seen the holes in which upright timbers had 
originally been set. It was clear that when such timbers had decayed or been 
removed, the packing of the trench had settled sufficiently to have left a shallow 
depression on the surface which remained visible after grass or heather had 
grown. 
During full-scale excavations at the same place in 1948, considerable lengths 
Fig. 2.