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THE NEIGHB0T7RH00D OF BROWN WILLY. 



UPTON 



child in a ckrism-garment, and a mutilated Latin inscription 

 above. The slab, then more perfect, seems to have been taken 

 from a chapel which formerly stood in the grounds of Trebartha. 

 At Trebartha of course there is the unique collection of Cornish 

 birds of the late Mr. E. Hearle Eodd, in the possession and 

 careful custody of the present lord of Trebartha. Among its 

 many ornithological treasures is the first example of the spotted 

 eagle (Aquila Noevia) recorded in England, which was shot in 

 Hawk's Wood, (see Eodd's "Birds of Cornwall") in 1861. 

 Another example was shot at Carnanton within a twelve month, 

 and was presented to our museum, at Truro, where it may be 

 seen, in a separate case, above the hawks, — an interesting feature 

 in the collection of birds. 



About two miles to the N.E. of Trebartha is Upton Castle- 

 (figs. 2 & 3) an antiquarian enigma. It consists of a circular 



rampart containing 

 a rectangular en- 

 closure. This 

 ancient stronghold, 

 or fortified sheep- 

 fold, or whatever it 

 was, is situated on 

 undulating ground, 

 but comparatively 

 E speaking in a valley 

 rather than on a 

 height. The ram- 

 part appears to have 

 been built of large 

 blocks of el van laid 

 in horizontal courses 

 without mortar ; but this (except portions of the lower courses) 

 having fallen outwards in inexplicable confusion, and its ruins 

 being covered with moss and filled in with the dead leaves of 

 generations of oak saplings, it is impossible to say whether, in 

 addition to the rampart proper, there was a kind of chevaux de 

 frise contiguous to it. The ground falls away abruptly on the N. 

 side of the castle, and there the large blocks, whether earth-fast 

 or not, are sufficiently numerous and precipitously arranged to 



