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feet nine inches. The tops of the pillars are enriched with the 

 guilloche ornament.* 



A brief visit was paid to St. Cleer Church, of which, in 1862, 

 in anticipation of an intended visit from the Cambrian Archceo- 

 logical Society, the late Mr. Pedler wrote as follows : — 



" The parish church has evidently been built at various times. The 

 tower, which is a finely proportioned granite structure, 100 feet high, is 

 probably of the last century ; the south aisle some centuries older, and the 

 north wall of very remote date. In this there is a doorway recently opened, 

 with a circular heading surrounded with the chevron ornament, the usual 

 characteristic of Norman work.f An opinion prevails that through this 

 door the novitiate was taken for baptism to the neighbouring baptistery of 

 St. Cleer Well." 



The party next proceeded, by way of Redgate, to Doniert's 

 Monument, or " The Other-Half Stone," an account of which was 

 read by Capt. Alms, of Bodmin, from Mr. Spence's "//er Cornuhi- 

 ense" ; in which it is recorded that in August, 1849, the members 

 of the Plymouth branch of the Exeter Diocesan Society visited 

 this monument, and, with assistance from South Caradon Mine, 

 raised Doniert's Stone from its sunken position, and dug down by 

 the side of the larger obelisk, to ascertain the truth of the report 

 by the historian Hals. — After reaching a depth of about fourteen 

 feet, a hole was discovered in the side of the shaft, which led into 

 a cruciform vault, eighteen feet in length from east to west, and 

 sixteen feet from north to south, the width of the vault being 

 about four feet; the sides were perpendicular, and the roof 

 circular, and all smoothed with a tool and as level as the rough 

 nature of the naked rocks would permit. Nothing was found. 



"TheHurlers" (three Circles of upright stones) — so called, 

 from a superstitious tradition that they were men metamorphosed 

 into stones for playing on the Lord's Day, — and the " Cheese- 

 wring," or " Wringcheese," were next visited; and also, at the 

 summit of the adjoining hill, an ancient circular vallum, composed 

 of loose stones, wdth eastern entrance. Concerning " the Hurlers," 

 Mr. Blight explained that the smaller circles, here as elsewhere, 

 originally surrounded places of sepulture in their centre; the 



* The Well, as it existed — a "picturesque ruin" — before its restoration, 



is represented in Blight's Crosses, vol. 2. 



f Parker, in his "Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture," 

 speaking of the chevron as a common Norman ornament, says : " it is found 

 at all periods, even in Koman work of the third century, and probably 

 earlier ; but in all early work it is used sparingly, and the profusion with 

 which it is used in late work is one of the most ready marks by which to 

 distinguish that the work is late." 



