212 RECENT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERIES IN CORNWALL. 



Rev. John Wallis,* Yicar of Bodmin, directed general attention 

 to it, and he afterwards caused its position to be inserted in the 

 Ordnance Map. Mac LanChlan published a plan of it in 1847. f 



Mr. Wallis took me to see it about 30 or more years ago, 

 and when last I visited it, on May 2nd, 1883, Mr. Fowler the 

 occupant of the land accompanied me. He said that his father 

 had previously farmed it in succession to Mr. Solomon, both of 

 whom had made discoveries in connection with the site. 



The ramparts, he told me, were formerly very wide, sloping 

 and overgrown, not like upright hedges. They had been 

 reduced in thickness within living memory. There was a double 

 rampart, he said, but now only a single one appears. The 

 banks were excavated back from both faces towards their centre, 

 thousands of cart-loads of earth and stone being removed to 

 dress the fields enlarged by the digging. 



He pointed out shallow pits or depressions in the ground, 

 outside the camp, as places in which burials had been discovered. 

 He said that barrows had been thence removed and, for the sake 

 of obtaining their fertilizing contents, the earth had been some- 

 what scooped out beneath where they had stood. One barrow 

 remained, much ploughed down, almost levelled by cultivation. 

 I noted the situation of these spots : — 



One (destroyed) was outside the middle of the north 

 embankment. 



A second (destroyed) was outside the eastern portion of the 

 south embankment. 



A third (destroyed) was outside the northern portion of the 

 west embankment. 



The fourth (the partially existing) was outside the western 

 portion of the south embankment, 

 consequently there must have been two barrows on the south, 

 one on each side of the entrance. 



The farmer informed me that he intended to open this last 

 tumulus when next the ground should be " not in crops," but I 

 have not heard anything about it since. Perhaps this may be 

 accounted for thus : — 



*Wallis's Bodmin Register, pp. vm, 51, 404. 



,, Cornwall Register, p. 19. 

 Cornwall Magazine, 1328, Vol. 3, p. 96. 

 fR.I. of C. Annual Report, 1849*50, pp. 21-3. 



