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some paving, and quantities of burnt ashes, and fragments of at least seven 

 vessels of pottery. 1 Pottery was discovered in excavating at Trewortha. 9 

 Remains at Smallacombe in Linkinhorne 8 may on examination prove to be the 

 ruins of a similar cluster. There was a good specimen at Bodinnar, 4 and there 

 is a more ruinous one at Mulfra in Gulval. 8 One which Edmonds mentions 

 at Bojuthno is now destroyed. 6 Dr. Borlase records the existence of a series 

 of similar structures at Chygwidden in Sancreed, 7 within a protecting rampart, 

 but now all traces of the huts have been removed, and nothing except a part of 

 the rampart remains. Coins are said to have been found in clearing the ruins. 

 There are a few instances of ' beehive ' huts in Cornwall, two 8 being still 

 in fair preservation. These are circular buildings about 1 5 feet in diameter ; the 

 walls are carried up straight for about 5 feet, above which each course is laid 

 overlapping the one below until the roof meets in the centre. The one at 

 Bosporthennis has an oblong square-cornered room opening out of it, the 

 southern end wall of which appears to have had almost a gable end. There 

 is a curious hut or chamber built in an enormous bank of earth and stones 

 at Ding Dong in Madron. 9 The bank is faced with stone through which 

 a doorway 3 ft. wide leads into a long chamber, similar to the underground caves 

 previously described; from this another doorway 2 ft. 6 in. X 3 ft. 6 in. opens 

 into a small square room 9 ft. on each side. This is roofed by four long 

 blocks of granite placed on the walls, which are 4 ft. high, across the corners. 

 Four similar stones are laid across the angles of the first course, and one large 

 single stone covers the remaining space. Although somewhat different and 

 apparently more modern than the beehive huts already mentioned, the ' Culver 

 house ' at Bussow, in Towednack, 10 may serve as a fitting conclusion for this 

 notice. It is circular, 18 ft. high, and the dome or roof is formed of eight 

 layers of stone, each overlapping the one beneath it. The small square 

 openings through the walls are supposed to indicate that it was built for use 

 as a pigeon house, but the history of this curious little tower is unknown. 



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In addition to the bronze mirror discovered in a grave at Trelan Bahow, 

 St. Keverne, and the bronze collar discovered at Trenoweth, in the parish of 

 Lelant, which are given in Mr. J. Romilly Allen's list of late Celtic objects, 11 

 Sir John Evans 1S recorded the discovery of a bronze brooch at Redmore, near 

 St. Austell, which probably belongs to the Early Iron Age. A bronze fibula 

 inlaid with coral (?), found in tin stream- works at Treloy in St. Columb 

 Major 1S (now in the Museum at Truro), and a brass jewelled collar found 

 with a bowl of block tin in tin stream-works in St. Stephen in Brannell, 1 * 

 (now in the Museum at Truro), present certain features which resemble 

 late Celtic ornaments from Yorkshire, and there is no reason to doubt that 

 they belong to the same period. 



I Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 286. * Journ. Roy. last. Corntv. xi, 290. 



3 Journ. Roy. Inst. Cornw. iii (1868), 10. 



4 Edmonds op. cit. 46 ; Tram. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc. i, 247 ; Bateman, op. cit. 3. 



5 Bateman, op. cit. 15. 6 Trans. Penz. Nat. Hist, and Antlq. Soc. i, 249. ' Bateman, op. cit. 1 6. 



8 Bosporthennis in Zennor, Lukis, op. cit. 19, fig. xxxix ; J. Romilly Allen, Arch. Camb. ix; Bateman, op. 

 cit. 1 6. Fernacre near Brownwilly, Bateman, op. cit. 8 and sketch. 



9 Bateman, op. cit. 7. 10 Bateman, op. cit. 8. 



II Arch. Camb. (Ser. 5), vol. xiii, 331. u Evans, Bronze Imp. 400. 

 13 Journ. Roy. Inst. Corntv. iv, 220. " Ibid, iii (1869), xi. 



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