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In most instances only one urn with or without a protecting kist is 

 found in each barrow, 1 but two were found in one barrow at Trelowarreri, 8 

 Trevelloe, 3 Bosporthennis 4 and Boscawen Un, 6 three at Clahar Garden 6 and 

 Gunwalloe. 7 Four kist vaens were found in one barrow at Bodinnar ; 8 one 

 complete urn and the remains of three others in the chambered barrow at 

 Tregeseal ; five urns in the round barrow at Bosavern, 9 five or six at Trannack, 10 

 and no less than seven in a similar monument at Boscreggan. 11 In the barrow 

 at Ballowal in St. Just, 13 which is the most interesting though not the largest 

 in Cornwall, were found, in addition to a grave sunk in the natural ground, 

 nine kist vaens, six of these being within the inner circular wall, but 

 apparently only two of these contained urns. Dr. Borlase 13 records a story of 

 a barrow at Chikarn in St. Just in which were found in 1733 ' about fifty 

 urns,' but unfortunately the barrow was removed and all the urns save one 

 destroyed before he heard of the discovery. A little earthenware cup ij in. 

 high was found with a large urn in a kist vaen, exposed by the washing away 

 of the cliff, at Harlyn Bay. 14 



At Trannack u and Boscreggan 18 two urns were found one inside the 

 other, and this also seems to have been the case at Boscawen Un. 17 It is usual 

 to find the urn in the kist vaen, but at Nanstallon, 18 Breock Downs, 19 Denzell 

 Downs, 20 Newquay, 21 Trannack 23 and Pelynt, 23 urns have been found with no 

 kist or protection at all, while at Trelowarren 2 * and Escalls, 25 although in each 



1 Gwallon Downs, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 185, fragments now in Truro Museum ; Boleigh, St. Burian, 

 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soe. i, 229; Boleit, Borlase, Naen. Com. 217 ; St. Cleer, Piym. Inst. x 

 (1888), 244; Denzell Downs, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 243, fragments now in Truro Museum; Newquay, 

 Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1840), 61, fragments now in Truro Museum ; Glendorgal, Journ. Roy. last. Cornw. 

 (1850), 56, now in Truro Museum; Creed, Drew, Hist, ii, 186; Portscatho, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 205, 

 fragments in Penzance Museum; Leswidden, Borlase, Antiq. 3 I o ; Tredinney, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 232; 

 St. Minver, Maclean, op. cit. iii, 7; Morvah, Borlase, Nat. Hist. 322 ; Drew, Hist, ii, 497 ; Borlase, Naen. 

 Corn. 182; Morvah Hill, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 247, fragment now in Truro Museum; Cam Galver, 

 supra (359); Angrowse, Borlase, Naen. Corn. 234, 237, fragments now in Truro Museum; Pradanack, 

 Borlase, Naen. Corn. 240 ; Pelynt, Ibid. 191 ; Perran Zabuloe, Borlase, Antiq. 311; Borlaso, Naen. Com. 1 8 1 ; 

 Botrea, Sancreed, Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 234 ; Escalls, Journ. Roy. Inst. Corntc. (1879), 2O 9> 

 now in Truro Museum ; Maen, Borlase, Antiq. 237 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 79 ; Towednack, Borlase, Antiq. 

 300; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 268 ; Conker Downs, Ibid. 210; Tywardreath, Carew, Surv. of Corntv. 137; 

 Wendron, Borlase, Antiq. 307 ; Withiel Carew, op. cit. 148 ; Drew, Hist, ii, 683 ; Zennor, Trans. Penz. 

 Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. (18834), 310; Nanstallon, Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. x (1890), 196 ; Hustyn, 

 Ibid, vii, 144, fragment now in Truro Museum; Harlyn, Ibid, x (1890), 199; Sennen, Borlase, Naen. 

 Corn. 230, now in Truro Museum ; St. Austell, Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1846), 42. 



* Borlase, Antiq. 214, 237. 



3 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 231 ; Edmonds, The Land's End District, 31 ; Borlase, Naen. 

 Corn. 207, now in Penzance Museum. 



4 Borlase, Naen. Corn. 286. 



5 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. (1862-5), 1 1 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 219, now in Penzance Museum. 



6 Borlase, Naen. Corn. 223. 



' Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. xiii, 438, now in Truro Museum. 



8 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. {,235. Borlase, Antiq. 235. 



10 Trani. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 234 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 208, two now in Penzance Museum. 



" Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. vi (1879), 201, fragments of three now in Truro Museum. 



" Ibid. 194, fragment now in Truro Museum. 



13 Borlase, Antiq. 234, fragments of two now in Truro Museum. 



"Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. x (1890), 204. 



15 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 234 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 208. 



16 Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. vi (1879), 201. " Borlase, Naen. Corn. 219. 

 18 Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. x (1890), 196. " Ibid, iii (1869), xxxiv. 



20 Borlase, Naen. Corn. 242, 246. 



" Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1840), 61 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 197. 



w Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 234 ; Borlase, Naen. Corn. 208. 



13 Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. (1846), 43. " Borlase, Antiq. 214, 237. 



K Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. vi (1879), 209, now in Truro Museum. 



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