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ANCIENT SETTLEMENT AT TREWORTHA. 



By the Rev. S. BARING-GOULD. 



In the Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall for 

 April, 1892, were published a notice and plans of some excavations 

 made in 1891 on the site of an ancient settlement at the edge of 

 Trewortha Marsh, on the Bodmin Moors. 



A couple of days were spent in making further researches, 

 in the spring of 1892, and one additional hut was in part cleared 

 out. This is the hut marked B on the plan. It consists 

 of a long chamber, measuring 29-ft. by 12-ft. 6-in., the walls 

 composed partly of upright blocks, partly of stones laid in rude 

 courses. It has its entrance on the west from a sort of vestibule 

 to which admittance was obtained from the south. To the north 

 this vestibule was probably closed by a wall, but no traces of its 

 foundations could be discovered. On the west of this vestibule 

 is a bakehouse, something like that already explored and 

 described. Hut E, It consists of a chamber measuring 9-ft. 

 10-in. by 12-ft. 6-in. Entrance was obtained from the east by 

 a doorway, of which one of the uprights alone remains. The 

 disappearance of this upright and of the wall of the vestibule 

 adjoining may point to removal at a later period for the con- 

 struction of a hedge or shed. 



In the west wall of this chamber is a domed oven, the floor 

 composed of a slab of granite. It was of bee-hive shape and 

 constructed by the gradual contraction of the courses of stone. 

 The top has fallen in. Adjoining it is a curious locker 

 constructed in a curve, so that it might derive some of the 

 heat from the oven. It is roofed over with four granite blocks. 



A second hut, A, was but partially explored. It consists of 

 two chambers that do not communicate with each other, that to 

 the east has its walls lined with upright blocks, and has its door 

 to the east, the western chamber has the door to the south, and 

 its walls are in part laid in courses. 



