70 ANCIENT SETTLEMENT ON TREWORTHA MABSH. 



But what is tlie significance of the hall with its benches and 

 its elbow chair at the head ? It has the appearance of having 

 been the place of meeting of a Stannary Court. A place of 

 gathering of some solemn character it must have been. 



So far the explorations of the ancient settlement on 

 Trewortha has yielded nothing that can fix its date even 

 approximately. But if the fates do not oppose, it is my inten- 

 tion in the spring of 1892 to continue the excavations, in the 

 hope that at length some clearer light may fall on these very 

 remarkable remains, and enable us to determine to what epoch 

 they belong. 



I will reserve, till I am able to report on these further 

 researches, what I have to say relative to the tools and pottery 

 found at Trewortha. 



With reference to the plan of the settlement, I may add 

 that I have omitted the unfinished cutting and embankment of 

 an abandoned mineral railway that runs to the west. Kie track 

 lines have been cut through or buried, but can be traced where 

 they emerge west of the bank or cutting. The visitor to the 

 settlement will have no difficulty in finding it. Hut A is just 

 below the last archway in the line. 



