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of coral blocks (d d, e e), running almost due east and west,1
leads from a stone table at one end (a) to another called the
nevet muagh (f) at the other. The lines of the blocks are not
parallel, but diverge towards the newt vn/uogh. On one side of
this is a mound of trochus shells ; on the other an enclosed area,
into which Deacon was not allowed to go; while in front Lies
an artiï¬Åcially deformed skull resting upon a stone (g). It is
not clear whether behind the newt muugh there runs a fence or
stone wall, but the plan indicates some such structure. Beside
the other stone table is a mound of skulls (c). The level of the
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ground rises on either side of the avenue and falls behind the
newt muagh.
The coral blocks of which the avenue is formed comprise
two sets; there are ten. principal stones (did), ï¬Åve on each
side, and these appear to be the stones which were procreated
by Mwenggil Veo and Ravaai. Telvusuaga was able to point
out which of these was Windemalavu, the stone of his own
“ house ", Amwi Venuwus, on which his father Tagalut Kabat
. ‘ Concerning the position of this avenue, Deacon writes : “ The orientation
of the avenue of stones in the laghu is 25° north oi the point at which the sun
sets here on 14th May; somewhere near east and west." Unfortunately there
is nothing to indicate at which end, the east or the west, the must muogh st0od.—
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