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its own peculiar name and distinguishing characteristic. At 

 Stare-hole Bottom, there was, a few years ago, a straight 

 rampart, or barrow, in perfect preservation, fifty-six paces 

 in length. It was commonly called the Giant's Grave, 

 though the popular tradition is equally strong that the 

 whole bottom is the site of a Danish encampment, or settle- 

 ment : to use the language of the tradition itself, as recited 

 by a guide, "by the records of England, it was a Danish 

 town, and had sixty dwellers." It is said that brass coins 

 have been found by some labourers on this spot. In a field 

 just below this there was formerly a quadrangular tumulus, 

 but it has long been destroyed by agricultural operations. 



At Roden or Randon Cove, about the middle of the 

 eighteenth century, a foreign vessel was wrecked, which 

 had some marble statues on board. 



There were several mounds about that part of the coast, 

 which had all the appearance of tumuli, but many of them 

 have been levelled in the process of farming the ground. 

 A considerable portion of this district is called "The Sewers," 

 divided into east, west, middle, lower, &c, and there are 

 farm-houses bearing these names. The whole neighbourhood 

 is described as being strikingly fine and beautiful. 



Dragon Bay was so called from the wreck of a ship 

 belonging to London, bearing that name, which was lost 

 here in the year 1757, in which wreck perished a family 

 called Chambers. Their remains were buried in Malborough 

 Churchyard, where a headstone, over-run with yellow lichen, 

 bore this inscription : — 



" Here lye the bodies of Rhodes, Daniel, Mary, and Joseph 

 Chambers, sons and daughters of Edward Chambers, of 

 Jamaica, who were shipwrecked at Cat-hole, within this 

 parish, August 22nd, 1757." 



