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ON SOME RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN 



CORNWALL (ROCK-MARKINGS, CINERARY-URNS, CELTIC, 



ROMAN, SAXON, NORMAN, & MEDIAEVAL REMAINS). 



By Ret. W. IAGO, B.A. (Hon. Local Secretary for Cornwall of the Society of 

 Antiquaries, London ; &c.) 



Cornubia, Cornugallia, Cornwallia,* with its rocky islets and 

 bold promontories, having been the first land sighted across the 

 sea by voyagers who sallied forth from between the Pillars of 

 Hercules and sailed northward past the western shores and isles 

 of the great continent of the old world, might reasonably be 

 expected to afford evidences, in the present day, of having been 

 visited in various ages by the representatives of many national- 

 ities, — and this it does. 



Relics, of various kinds, links in the chain of history, abound 

 throughout its sea-girt area, and elucidate to some extent the 

 modes of thought and the habits which have prevailed during 

 many an epoch. 



With hosts of such relics in Cornwall most readers and 

 observers are familiar, but each successive year reveals some- 

 thing fresh, connected with the past, and throws additional light 

 upon earlier discoveries which in some instances have been but 

 partially understood. 



Since the communication of my first paper to the Journal of 

 the Eoyal Institution of Cornwall twenty years ago, it has been 

 my pleasant privilege as an archaeologist to report, from time to 

 time, to my fellow members of the Institution, at their various 

 meetings, several antiquarian " finds." Many of these have not 

 been fully recorded, they have been mentioned and then reserved 

 for illustration in the Journal. 



Materials for several papers having thus accumulated, my 

 object now will be to give a summary of particulars relating to 

 a few of the subjects, instead of devoting to each of them a 

 lengthy description in separate form. 



This summary will introduce them as far as possible in the 

 order of their archaeological sequence : — 



*For notices of the Carnabii, Cimbri, and Dumnonii, — of the Cernewec or 

 Kernuac, Cornish, — and of Kernow, Cornwall, or West Wales, see the various 

 local histories. 



