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that it was erected by two men, -i3illseld and Genered, for the good 

 of Elwyn's soul ; and he added that he had discovered that Elwyn 

 was a Saxon landowner in the district at the time of the Conquest ; 

 and that men named ^Isig and Guenneret were mentioned in the 

 Bodmin Manumissions. Concerning the stone at Slaughter Bridge, 

 Mr. lago spoke of the emendation Avhich he had been enabled to 

 confirm in the ordinary reading of the inscription, and which we 

 have already recorded.* — Dr. Barham considered that the de- 

 ciphering the first letter as L, instead of C, as in Borlase and 

 other authorities, was highly important, as indicating that the 

 person whom the inscription recorded was a Romanized Briton ; 

 whereas Carew read it as referring to " Arthur." It was satis- 

 factory. Dr. Barham added, that the proprietors of the estate 

 where the stone was now lying, were willing to assist in its erection 

 on a suitable site in the vicinity. — Rev. J. J. Wilkinson, in refer- 

 ence to a recent tradition mentioned by Mr. lago, that there was 

 formerly at the head of the Castle Golf stone a Cross, which had 

 been removed by a former Vicar of Lantegios, stated that there 

 was now in the Vicarage Grounds a Cross, of apparently suitable 

 size for its alleged former position. He would make inquiries on 

 the subject, with the view of aiding the preservation of both 

 shaft and cross. 



Mr. T. Q. Couch exhibited, from his private cabinet, various 

 objects illustrative of social history in by-gone days, and he offered 

 observations upon them severally. They included beside those we 

 have already recorded {see pp. xxxviii, xxxix), an ancient Knife, 

 and an Apostle Spoon, found at Trelav/ne, in 1860. 



Mr. Whitley described, with illustrations by means of draw- 

 ings and plans, the remains of an ancient encampment and other 

 antiquities on Michaelstow Beacon, and the hut circles on Roughtor ; 

 mentioning also a stone circle, 140 feet in diameter, which he had 

 no doubt was anciently a temple in connection with the British 

 village in its vicinity ; and he added that there was a logan-stone 

 near it. 



In the course of some ensuing discussion, Dr. Barham spoke 

 of the beehive form of construction of the huts near Michaelstow ; 

 and he commended to the patronage of his audience, various 

 drawings of these and similar antiquities in that district, which 

 had been made by Mr. Fuller, of Camelford, an artist who had 

 rmhai^pily lost his sight by cataract. — Mr. CouCH said he could 

 point out, in the neighbourhood of Roughtor, a tolerably perfect 



* See ante, p. xxxix. 



