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tury" (Mrs. Rosher). It had been long used as a stable, until about 15 years ago, 

 when it was pulled down. Some of the stones are now in the conservatory, and bear 

 carved fruits, supposed to be pomegranates — which seem thus to indicate the days 

 of Catherine of Arragon. The ground on which it stood is still called the chapel 

 meadow, and was also a burial ground, for many graves have been recently found 

 with flat stones placed together so as to represent the ordinary coffin shape. There 

 were not any large slabs found, nor inscriptions of any kind. It is not known 

 when it ceased to be a burial ground. The Delahays placed their memorial stones 

 in Walterstone Church from late in the 17th century. Tradition states that the 

 altar-stone of the chapel was put into the present larder of the house, and that 

 everything placed upon it turned sour. It is a fact that the larder is not a good 

 keeping place, but all the stones there seem equally bad. A curious custom is ob- 

 served at Trewyn, handed down from time immemorial : it is that of ringing the 

 Angelus bell at 6 a.m., 12 noon, and 6 p.m. daily. 



To return to the Cymric derivation of local names, the house hard by Trewyn 

 is Trefedw, which no doubt means Bedoe's home. Neither this camp, nor the spur 

 of the Black Mountain on which it stands, seems to have a Welsh name. The 

 Welsh name you will have been charmed with on the programme, Cyrau-r-Waun, 

 means the skirt or margin of the meadow, a morass, for Waun. on a common or 

 mountain, always means a rough piece of wet land abounding with rushes. To 

 come now, last of all, lest you should think your lesson in Welsh too long, to 

 Cwm Yoy, where we hope soon to be. Cwm, all are agreed, means a valley whose 

 sides are concave, or hollowed out, in contradistinction to Glyn, a valley whose 

 sides are convex in form. The last syllable Yoy gives rise to a wide difference of 

 opinion. One high authority thinks it derived from iau, a yoke, Cwm-iau, the 

 valley of the yoke, and adds that it is an actual fact that the range of mountain 

 and dingle has the exact shape of the old yoke used for coupling oxen. The other 

 high authority thinks yoy must be goy, an old corrupted form of the Welsh word 

 coed, a wood, Cwm-goy, the wooded valley. Then by changing the g into y for 

 the sake of euphony, we have the present Cwm-yoy. Yet another derivation 

 makes Cwm-yoy a corruption of Cwm-yew, the yew tree valley. So authorities 

 differ ! We have regained our breath, let us set off to judge between them. (A 

 ground plan of the double camp was handed round for inspection.) 



A complete inspection of the camp was then made under the guidance of 

 General Gillespie, who pointed out the covered approaches by the hill-side to the 

 eastern entrance which was not from the direction of the Roman road, another 

 proof, if more were required, to show its British origin. The direct communica- 

 tion between the two divisions of the camp could not be clearly decided on, but 

 the entrenchments for the square portion, particularly on its northern face, were 

 very much bolder than elsewhere, and it seemed probable that it had been a 

 means of exit at each corner of this end of the square camp. There is no water 

 supply within the camp itself, but springs are abundant in the Black Mountains, 

 and two springs exist about a hundred yards north of the camp, one on each side 



