290 ANCIENT SETTLEMENT AT TREWOETHA. 



With, regard to the relics found in this settlement, it is not 

 possible from them to determine its age, further than that it 

 dates from after the Roman Conquest. The pottery is rude, all 

 of one type, and bears no trace of glaze. The fragments 

 discovered point to wide-mouthed vessels, some of them with 

 handles, but no spouts, so badly baked that some of the clay can 

 be washed away as though it had never been subjected to the 

 fire. Of ornament there is very little, what little there is was 

 made with the finger or a bit of stick. 



The discovery of several small hones shows that there were 

 in use at the time iron tools ; three or four flint flakes, and a 

 scraper were found, also a circular button of slate, and a small 

 granite quern. 



A large quantity of the pottery, and the flakes and scraper 

 of flint have been given by Mr. Robins Bolitho, the proprietor 

 of the land, to the Penzance Museum. 



In the Journal of the Institution for 1868-70, is published 

 a " Notice of enclosures at Smallacombe, near the Cheesewring," 

 by Mr. J. T. Blight. These enclosures are situated about a mile 

 further up the valley of the Withy Brook. They are of precisely 

 the same character as those at Trewortha, and Mr. Bolitho is 

 desirous that I should explore these, so as to arrive at some more 

 definite conclusions as to the date of these perplexing remains. 



On the hill slopes and tops around Trewortha are numerous 

 cairns. Of these we have explored three. One was sliced 

 through by the railway cutting, we found it contained a kiscvaen, 

 and under this a cup-like depression in clay containing ashes. 

 A second, explored on a spur of hill dividing Tresillern Marsh 

 from Trewortha, yielded nothing. A third, on the slope above 

 Rushelford Gate, contained a granite cist enclosing ashes and 

 burnt bone, but nothing further. 



