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Some of the letters are similar in form to those which the Saxons 

 derived from the Eomans, but the names are Eomano-British. 

 The inscription is 



/ VAILATHI 



V FILIUROCHANI 



" Yailathi fili Urochani " would signify the grave stone of Vail- 

 athus son of Urochanus ; but if we disregard case, and consider 

 that instead of E we should read a " hook S " accidentally 

 conjoined to a following horizontal stroke, we have ''Vailathi 

 filius Ochari," the grave-stone of Vailathus son of Oehanus. 

 The former reading is better. It has not been suggested before, 

 but it agrees exactly with the marks ujpon the stone. 



KENKETH AND PINCHLA. 

 This paper should not be concluded without noticing that Mr. 

 Jenkin has made some other excavations in this parish, amongst 

 some grass grown heaps of old walls at Kenketh or Kenkeese, 

 and has discovered a fine granite newel staircase in the ruins. 

 Its circular winding is broken away at several feet from the 

 ground. Just by the foot of the stairs is a doorway, and there 

 is also a very small chamber, cellar, or store. The building is 

 close to the beautiful vale Pinchla Deer Park,-'' now owned by 

 Lord Eobartes, and must have been a house of some consequence. 

 Possibly the owner of the Park may have stayed in it occasionally, 

 or "the Pinchley Parker" may have been here lodged. Mr. 

 Jenkin points out that the Ordnance Map is in error concerning 

 this place, the names of the Pinchla Park buildings and Kenkeese 

 being interchanged. 



* Disparked not so very long ago, as shewn by Sir J. Maclean from the follow- 

 ing entries in the Bodmin Mayors' accounts, — 



1699 — 1700. Gave Pensley Parker when he hrot a venison — .10s. — 

 Gave Lanhydrock Parker for the same — .10'. — 

 1702-3. Given Pincheley Parker for a venison — .10s. — 

 Mr. Jenkin mentions that the name " Deaths Corner " which is given to a 

 place here, just by a trying ascent, conveys a tradition of the hunting held in 

 former days— evidently referring to the deaths of many deer, the victims of the 

 chase. 



