ON THE EEMAINS OP AN ANCIENT GRAZING MILL, IN THE 

 PARISH OP CONSTANTINE. 



By JAMES BRYANT. 



On Eetallack Farm, the property of Lord Clinton, are the 

 ruins of an old MOl, which are called by some persons, 

 "The Old Jews' House," and it is said that some hollow 

 basin-shaped stones lying about, were used as moulds for 

 pouring melted tin into. Whether tin was ever smelted there is 

 doubtful, but there can be little doubt that tin-stone was ground 

 there between mill-stones, as described in Carew's Survey of 

 Cornwall, where these buildings are called Crazing Mills. 



Parts of the walls of a house, measuring 20 feet by 13 feet, 

 are still standing. In the gable wall there is a rectangular open- 

 ing 2 feet high, by 1 foot 9 inches wide, where the axle of a 

 water-wheel passed through, the top and bottom stones of the 

 opening being old worn-out mill-stones, which must have been 

 used in another mill, previous to the present walls having been 

 built. Two blocks of granite, one on each side of the asle 

 opening in the same end wall, have in them rectangular grooves 

 2 feet 5 inches long, 3|- inches wide, and 3 inches deep, which are 

 also said to have been old ''Tin Moulds," but I consider with 

 Mr. Thomas Clark (who accompanied me on my last visit) that 

 the grooves were used to hold supports for the machinery of the 

 mill. At the opposite end of the house, there is a dome-shaped 

 oven built, with granite, the bottom of which is an old mill-stone, 

 and although it is said to have been used for calcining tinstuff, it 

 was most probably used for domestic purposes. 



Within and without the old walls, are the parts of several mill 

 stones, aU. of which are more or less grooved on the face in a 

 circular direction. They are of granite, and were from 3^ to 4 

 feet in diameter, the upper stones being concave, varying in depth 

 from 1 to 4 inches, from the edges to the centre, and the under 

 stones are convex. Some of the stones have also been used as 

 both upper and under mill-stones. A part of an upper mill- 



