TEEGONNING HILL AND ITS SURROUNDINGS. 359 



Tregonan — a possible variant of Tregonning. The arms of 

 Tregonan were " Ar. a fess between three crows sa :" but there 

 is little to connect this family with Tregonning Hill.* The 

 Doomsday Book under the lands held by the Earl of Moreton, 

 says "The below written lands were taken away from St. Petrock, 

 Bodmin, The Earl of Moreton holds them, and his men hold of 

 him. In Tregon (in the Exeter copy Tregonan) is one virgate 

 of land, and pays fifteen shillings by custom." Tregonan, 

 instead of Tregonning, is the ordinary pronounciation used by 

 the peasantry at present. Though this holding has been identi- 

 fied with that of Tregonning Hill, I must say that I have not 

 yet met with the slightest evidence in favour of this opinion. An 

 old house was pulled down about thirty years ago, when the 

 present unpretending farm-house was built. Its only remains 

 appear to be a very modest lintel with the date 1696 on it, 

 built into the walls of the present structure. 



A first camp, lying due E. and W., is almost entirely 

 perfect. It has a sally port on the E. three feet wide. The 

 diameter of the camp is 178 feet. The vallum on the east, 

 inside the camp has a slope of twenty-six feet, whilst its outside 

 taken perpendicularly is 10 feet 4 inches. The width of the foss 

 from side to side at the top is 27 feet at its greatest height. 

 The depth of the vallum on the north is far greater than that on 

 the east, as it is 19 feet 4 inches : very nearly double that of the 

 other. Within the camp about the centre is a hut circle much 

 injured, still its extent can be traced, and is twenty-eight feet 

 across. On the N. W. close to the vallum are the remains of two 

 more huts in a very delapitated state. On the N.W. a kind of 

 road trends away in a north-westerly direction for some distance. 

 It is hedged on each side by low mounds ; its surface is flat, and 

 its breadth about twelve feet. 



A second camp in a most remarkable state of preservation 

 lies to the South of the road from Tregonning to Grreat Work. 

 It has a very deep circular foss, hedged in on both sides by lofty 

 valla. On the eastern side at the upper extremity for about a 



* Nicholas Tregonan was living in Breage Parish in the 15th year of King 

 Henry VIII, and in a subsidy roll of that date in the Public Record Office, hia 

 goods are valued at 60/ — Ed. 



