70 CORNUBIANA. 



Lower-town, Helston. At the bottom of this village, just 

 above the foaming Cober, rises Castle Tremearne in three irregu- 

 lar, curved tiers, the sides of which are scarped out of the 

 solid rock. They are somewhat of a serpentine shape, and 

 are separated from one another by broad curves of turf. The 

 summit is rounded, sloping away to the S.W. At the foot of 

 the castle there are two parallel terraces, rising one above the 

 other, and stretching towards the S.E. This " castle " (which 

 word often means an earth- work) presents unique features, as it 

 could not have been intended either for habitation or fortifi- 

 cation, and its object remains an enigma. 



A carved stone is built into the wall of the mill in the 

 same village. It is placed side wise, and its dimensions are 

 11 inches by 9 inches. It is rudely sculptured, being divided 

 by a pale, and within this there is a v shaped figure. The lower 

 portion has a deeply excised panel bounded by a sculptured 

 curve, and inside this there are faint traces of a heart-and-egg 

 -shaped figure. 



Half-way up the village street stands a peculiarly fine 

 mould for casting tin, hewn out of iron-stone. It is, roughly 

 speaking, 4 feet square. On the upper surface are two deep 

 excavations, somewhat of the form and size of an ordinary 

 human foot. They have deeply extended splays in the centre, 

 and are very finely finished for the purpose for which they were 

 intended. In size and general character this mould deserves 

 careful attention. 



On Mill-pool Hill, another stone mould for casting tin is 

 to be noticed lying embedded in the hedge, as one of the 

 foundations. The stone is an ordinary flat one, 15 inches in 

 length by 12 inches in height. The two holes used for casting 

 occupy an extreme width of 10 inches, and the width of each 

 hole is 5 inches, length 4^ inches. The holes are semicircular, 

 and are 3 inches deep. There is no channel to connect the 

 two holes, nor is there any means of conveying away the 

 superfluous metal. The surface is blackened by contact with 

 red-hot metal, and it is the only one within my knowledge that 

 is thus coated with fumes (fig. 3). 



