RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 201 



At first sight I imagined the neat rude walling to be the 

 ruin of some hedge swallowed up in the sand or destroyed by a 

 land-slip, — but now I consider the vestiges to have been 

 structural parts of a barrow or barrows, in original position. 



The undulatory form of the sandy cliff summit, supports 

 this view, and indicates that the discovered urn (others may yet 

 be found near) was surmounted by a tumulus, perhaps by one 

 of a group. 



If the highest sand-hill nearest to it and partly over it 

 should prove to be its barrow, unaltered in size and outline, the 

 urn must have been interred beneath its western side, but so 

 much sand has fallen down to the beach, from over the site of 

 the urn, that the true apex of its tumulus may have disappeared. 



Such extensive sand-slips have taken place, that we cannot 

 with certainty determine what were the sizes and arrangement 

 of the mounds when they were first reared. 



On re-examining the cliff on the 22nd of February, 1890, I 

 found that much more had been carried away by wind and sea. 



The great sand- heap remaining, may have had within it a 

 cairn or dome protecting the urn. It may also have had a 

 surrounding rampart, formed like itself of stones and sand, — or, 

 the conjectured rampart may have been a second barrow, now 

 reduced in size, with cairn, or with stone-work built around to 

 strengthen its base, (raised over the skeleton). 



We now proceed to a description of the objects found, and, 

 so far as Cornwall is concerned, I believe one of them to be 

 unique, and therefore of extreme interest : — 



(A). Plat stone, resting on mouth of urn. 



(B). Large urn, with 2 handles. 



(C). Small cup, with 2 perforations, \ 



(D). Bronze dagger-knife, with 2 rivets, f .,. . ,. 



)-^( -d i > within the urn. 



(E). Bronze awl, or pm, i 



(F). Burnt Bones, J 



(G-). One or two stones, somewhat celt-like in form, found 



in or near the urn. Also a pierced stone spindle 



whorl, picked up at the same place, subsequently. 



