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ANTIQUITIES NEAR LISKEARD. 



having left St. Cleer about three quarters of a mile 

 behind us, we were informed by a man who was 

 driving cows that Cheesewring hill was only " about 

 a half a mile farder on ; '* this was consolation : but 

 having advanced a full mile farther, we were told 

 by an intelligent peat cutter that the Cheesewring 

 was "two mile and a half over the moors. 



TRETHEVY CROMLECH, FROM THE SOUTH. 



The Trethevy cromlech is situated to the north 

 east of St. Cleer, and may be distinctly seen from 

 the higher parts of the village, appearing like a small 

 barn ; a paved lane leads nearly all the way to it, 

 and this lane, having high banks and hedges, effec- 

 tually shuts it out from sight until it bursts at once 

 upon the eye, a gigantic and sublime monument of 

 Druidical religion. Antiquarians have usually con- 

 sidered such erections as sepulchral monuments, but 

 of late others are inclined to think that they were 

 temples, used for the performance of certain sacred 

 rites. 



About midway between this cromlech and the 

 Cheesewring, on the wide waste of Caraton down, 

 stands a lone granite cross. It consists of a single 

 block, standing upwards of nine feet above the 

 ground, with a rounded head, bearing the couped 

 cross. This solitary pillar, evidently a Christian 



