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of a door-jamb and quoin. The stones measure about a foot each 

 way. The bevel on them is 3^ inches in width. They seem to 

 indicate an Early English style of structure. Mixed with the 

 earth between the stones — not thrown into a pit, but filling the 

 interstices of much of the wall, — were broken bones, &e. of fish, 

 flesh, and fowl. Oyster shells and boars' teeth being numerous. 



On visiting the excavations (by Mr Jenkin's invitation) in 

 April, I dug out several scattered pieces of a vessel composed of 

 plain, rough, unglazed reddish-brown pottery ; perhaps a water 

 pitcher, but in texture more resembling a cinerary urn. It ap- 

 pears too coarse and rough on the inside to have been fit for 

 culinary purposes. Externally it is smoother and blacker. The 

 nature of the fragments does not admit of the shape of the 

 vessel being determined. In curve and thinness they resemble 

 coker-nut shell. It has yet to be ascertained whether any of 

 the bones found near it are human remains. The presence of the 

 bones, shells, and pottery*' in the wall may be accounted for on 

 the supposition that the stones were built together with earth 

 already containing them. Human remains laid in graves, and 

 now decayed, were disclosed when the workmen dug for stone at 

 another part of the castle. The excavations yielding the dressed 

 stone have been conducted in that rampart or mound which abuts 

 upon and separates it from ''White Hill," the adjoining great 

 lower enclosure, which seems to have been the Castle yard or 

 Base Court, and which (now a cultivated field) would have made 

 a good parade ground. It is related that opulent members of the 

 Dinham family lived at the Castle in the 12th and 1 3th centuries, 

 and later. The stones now discovered confirm the probability of 

 this. 



At a distance of about half a mile is 



CAEDINHAM CHURCH. 



This, it is alleged, was founded by one of the same Dinhams at 

 some time subsequent to the conquest. In illustration of the 

 early history of this edifice, I have been able to decipher some 

 curious Latin inscriptions, which the Rev. Gr. H. Smith, late 

 rector, found hidden under the plastering of the chancel wall. 



* Specimens of the various relics found by Mr. Jenkin and the members of 

 his family, by Mr. J. H. Collins, and myself, are now dejoosited (properly labelled) 

 in the Museum at Truro, and some in the Museum at Bodmin. 



