142 NOTICE OF A CINERARY URN AT HUSTYN. 



It is much to be desired that when possessors of primeval relics 

 purpose breaking into them, they would first give notice of their 

 intention to those who are expert in such matters, lest some dis- 

 covery be marred or pass unrecorded. 



It often becomes necessary for farmers, in bringing land into culti- 

 vation to clear away furze-grown cairns which may, or may not, be 

 interesting as antiquities. Occasionally a Burial-place, bemg un- 

 recognized, is disturbed unintentionally. In such a case no blame 

 can reasonably be assigned It was so at Hustyn recently. A fine 

 urn containing burnt bones was accidentally found, and, unfortu- 

 nately, its purpose not being perceived, it was broken by the finders, 

 who afterwards regretted their haste and did their utmost to pre- 

 serve the remains. 



Hustyn,-^ commonly called Huss'n, is the present name of an 

 ancient 'region, a great part of which is still unfilled, lying in the 

 parish of St. Breock in the north part of mid-Cornwall. 



The tract of land so-named, is bounded on the south and east 

 by Withiel Parish and the waters flowing from Euthern Bridge 

 along the valley, whilst a stream running into the river Allan, 

 further north, and Bishop Wood on the north east, almost complete 

 the outline. 



Hustyn Mill, on the stream just mentioned, leads up through 

 Hustyn Wood to Hustyn, a farm, on the south of which rises the 

 hill crowned with Hustyn Barrow. This last overlooks Hustyn 

 Downs and St. Breock Downs, westward, rich in ancient tumuh and 

 stone remains.f 



It is worth while to toil up the desolate hill, to Hustyn Barrow, 

 to enjoy the view which stretches on all sides :— On the north 

 (beyond Padstow, &c.) lies the open sea ; eastward, Dartmoor m 



*" Thersent," in Domesday Book, is supposed to be the same as the manor of 

 „rT 4.^ '' TTnl« f"ilk the Blace " Hurston," Hurst-town (Wood-town). H.M. W. 

 •^l^XnniSs Gloss^^^^^ " H;ston " (High Stone ?) In Prebendary 



WimWrCornu-Brit: Lexicon is a verb " Ystyne '.'-(to extend, stretch, or 

 r^acS The meaning of Hustyn has not been determined. 

 ' + There are many tumuli west of Hustyn and Tregawne Barrows. There are 

 la Jbe Pawton Cromlech (a burial-kist, formerly m a mound) known as ' Giants 

 ?;^^-."L"T)Xds' Altar '' and the Inscribed Stone of Ulcagn, son of Severus; 

 Colt or -U^UKls -> ,''^1 ''ftvP^t Stone " &c See my illustrated account of 

 the Menhirs " btone ^"^.^^j^^^^r^ol IV p. 70 ; Warner's Tour, frontis- 

 S ^'^M^r''r™iey'rd:S4C wS- pi ' in;' Royal Inst of Cornwall 

 leport ''for 1810, p. 30 ; and Mr. Borlase's in his " Nseuia Cornubi^, pp. 32, 

 79. 



