RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN" CORNWALL. 189 



A recent search for these stones has proved unsuccessful, 

 and a suspicion now strikes me that perhaps the incised one may- 

 be identical with the Castle Groff " Sybstel,"* erected a few years 

 ago on Lanteglos Rectory lawn, where it now stands. Judging 

 by Dr. Borlase's sketch, its general appearance is very similar, 

 its height, its former distance and direction from Camelford also 

 agree, but the width across the base differs by a foot. The 

 identity therefore not being quite established, a further search 

 should be made, especially as an intimation has reached me, 

 through Mr. Tellam, of Bodmin, that an inscribed stone hitherto 

 undeciphered exists somewhere in the same district. 



Curious marks were noticed some years ago by Mr. H. 

 Michell Whitley "ona stone under a thorn tree, on what seems 

 to be the site of a walled barrow, about 100 yards north of 

 Carwynen Cromlech," near Pendarves, Camborne. He thought 

 that they might be artificial, and like those on the Macroom 

 Cromlech in Ireland. He forwarded to me figures of the mark- 

 ings on both, but considered that further investigation was 

 needed before he could offer a definite opinion with regard to 

 them. We therefore leave them to him for elucidation. 



Reference must next be made to some marks discovered by 

 Mr. Blight upon a rock on Goldherring Down, in Sancreed, near 

 Penzance.f He figured and described them as " 5 cups, varying 

 from 2 to 3 inches in diameter, with a curved line over them." 

 He states that they are near the sites of ancient dwellings and 

 sepulchral remains, and informs me that they are rounded pits, 

 semi-circular in section. 



Since he discovered them they have engaged the attention 

 of other antiquaries. 



It has been alleged further that marks, supposed to be cup- 

 markings, have been found near the Cheesewring, in the Liskeard 

 district, the late Mr. Henwood, F.R.S., having pointed them out 

 for examination. 



*Maclean's " Trigg Minor," Vol. 2, page 281, plate xxxiv, in which I have 

 figured it. 



fTransac. Penzance Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Soc, III, 67, 1865 ; JR. I. of C. 

 Journal, Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct. '65, p. xvn., Vol. 2, No. 6, Oct. '66, p. ix. ; Soc. 

 of Antiquaries Proceedings, III, 302, 1866, with illustration. 



