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A paper contributed by Mr. Herbert Whitley, on the " Bolster 

 Entrenchment, St. Agnes," was then read. This entrenchment 

 ran, when perfect, between Breanick Coom and Forth Chapel 

 Coom. The eastern portion, following the scarp of the hill from 

 a little east of Castle house through the churchyard to Vicarage, 

 is now totally obliterated ; slight traces of the ditch remain in 

 Polbreen Common, and through Bolster estate to Groonown the 

 entrenchment is nearly perfect, except in one or two places. 

 Beyond this latter place the course of the Bolster may be traced 

 by slight indications and portions of the vallum still remaining, 

 particulars of which were given in the paper, which was illustrated 

 by a map showing the course of the entrenchment and its 

 present state. 



Mr. H. Michell "Whitley contributed some notes on Merther 

 and Creed churches, and drew attention to a figure of St. Anthony 

 found in the field where St. Cohan's Chapel formerly stood, 

 now placed in a perpendicular nitch on the north of the altar. 

 The canopy of the nitch is blackened by smoke from a lamp or 

 candle. Attention was also drawn to the fragments of two fonts 

 found by the Eev. F. Webber, in 1843, in the ruins of St.Cohan's 

 Chapel. From the ornamentation on one it is probably 

 transitional Norman. 



At Creed Church, built in the south wall, is a well-carved 

 tablet nine inches square, with the symbols of the Virgin Mary — 

 a pot with a lilly. These remarks were illustrated by sketches 

 of the various relics described, and some notes on St. Anthony, 

 contributed by Mr. Tregellas, who also sent a copy of a drawing 

 of Grampound old chapel and cross. 



Mr. Hamilton James exhibited a humerus of a great Eorqual 

 Whale, found below high- water mark, at Port Holland, on the 

 25th October, 1880, and which is fully described in Mr. James* 

 paper on page 42 of this Journal. 



February 15th, 1881. 



JAMES JAGO, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., ix the chaiu. 



A paper 'was read from Mr. W. T. Hancock on " AVild Eed 

 Deer in Cornwall." Since August, 1879, a wild red stag, with 

 a huge pair of horns, has been seen in the Hendergrove and 

 Trengall woods, but has eluded all efforts to capture him. AVhen 



