432 LANYHORN CASTLE. 



About the middle of the 1 8th century the boys called this 

 funnel "The Dungel," but it was gradually filled up with dust 

 and sweepings from the house and then boarded over. 



Under the house was a kind of cellar known as the Prison. 

 Immediately to the west of this and connected with it was 

 another chimney of stone shooting up in the same thickness of 

 the wall, the fire-place was ample, and the water-table of the 

 roof above could clearly be traced, and on the north side were 

 the remains of a large arch for supporting the tower. So far 

 Whitaker. 



These chimneys I find still stand, but the arch and groove of 

 the water-table are no longer to be seen. I am of opinion, 

 however, that the work alluded to is much more modern than 

 the date of the castle, and has no connection with it whatever. 

 The round tower having been pulled down completely, and the 

 materials used to build the houses. 



About twenty feet to the north-west and in the boundary 

 wall of the coal-yard still stands a fragment of the original 

 castle wall, built of flat bedded slate-stones filled in with rubble 

 set not in mortar but in clay, proving its antiquity ; this is 

 shewn on the plan at A, its dimensions being about 5 feet wide 

 and 8 feet high. 



This wall continued through the coal- yard, where all traces 

 are now lost, but when the yard was being formed a furnace was 

 discovered which would hold 100 gallons, and had four flues ; a 

 tradition of this brew-house still lingers, as the present building 

 which has only been erected about twenty years is known as the 

 "^malt-house." 



A little beyond this at the spot marked B, two parallel walls 

 were laid bare, having only a narrow space between them. It is 

 conjectured that this was the guarded avenue from the water- 

 gate into the castle. The second tower of the river front stood 

 here, and a couple of moorstone balls were found on its site, these 

 may have been catapult balls ; some iron balls have also been 

 discovered. Close here in the yard was found in digging about 

 the middle of the last century the fair figure of a man about 6 

 feet high, with his right hand raised above his head, and his 



