THE SOUTH DEVON 

 MONTHLY MUSEUM. 



PLYMOUTH, JANUARY 1st, 1835. 

 No. 25.] Price Sixpence. [V^ol. V. 



' THE CHEESEWRING. 



The accompanying engraving was taken from a 

 drawing prepared, for the " Museum," by a friend ; 

 it presents a view of the eastern side. 



The Cheesewring is situated about six miles north 

 of Liskeard, on the south side of a hill, in a wild and 

 desolate tract of country : on the hill are several 

 other singular groups of granite rocks, some of 

 which appear disposed in layers similar to those of 

 the Cheesewring. The upper part of the hill is en- 

 circled by an irregular low wall or vallum of small 

 stones. 



Borlase, in his " Antiquities of Cornwall,'' has 

 given some account of the Cheesewring, which we 

 quote in his own words. — 



" The rock, now called Wringcheese, is a group of 

 rocks that attracts the admiration of all travellers. 

 On the top stone were two regular basins ; part of 

 one of them has been broken off. The upper stone 

 was, as I have been informed, a logan, or rocking 

 stone, and might, when it was entire, be easily moved 

 with a pole ; but nov/ great part of that weight which 

 kept it on a poise is taken away. The whole heap 

 of stone is 32 feet high ; the great weight of the 

 upper part, and the slenderness of the under part, 

 makes every one wonder how such an ill grounded 

 pile could resist for so many ages the storms of such 

 an exposed situation, ft may seem to some that 

 this is an artificial building of ilat stones, laid care- 

 voL, v.— 1835. A 



