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moreover, when preparing to storm the stronghold of an enemy, 

 they first entrenched themselves on some convenient spot in its 

 vicinity. 



If it be urged that the Roman camps between Port Isaac and 

 Bodmin are at less than the distance of a day's march apart, it 

 may be replied that the troops, as we have surmised, may have 

 been investing and attacking one British castle after another, 

 and, if so, such fighting would cause the distance advanced each 

 day to be very slight. The fortresses of Tregaer in St. Kew, 

 Kelly Rounds, and Pencarrow, would all have to be dealt with, 

 and silenced, before Boscarne Ford at Nanstallon could be 

 reached, — to command which ford their own Tregaer had then 

 to be constructed. Also it is just possible that the three Roman 

 camps, Trevinick, Kelly, and Tregaer, — were garrisoned simul- 

 taneously ; the cohorts occupying them being in support of each 

 other. 



But now, having noticed the Roman camps of north-east* 

 Cornwall, and considered the probable objects for which they 

 were formed, and having made some remarks on the military 

 regulations which affected their occupants, and alluded to the 

 different grades of Tribunes, Centurions, &c. in command, we 

 must add a few words about their monumental memorials. 



Scarcely any distinctively Roman interments can with 

 certainty be pointed out in the neighbourhood, but the tumuli 

 adjacent to the camp at Tregaer, overlooking Nanstallon, seem 

 to be those of Roman soldiers, especially if some of the small 

 plain urns in the Bodmin collection were found in them, as I 

 have reason to believe they were, and if others contained ashes 

 without urns. We have no such sepulchral inscriptions however, f 



*In St. Neot's is a camp on Bury Down (described as "an oblong oval " and 

 as being about the size of Tregaer) which may or may not be Roman. 



The rectangular enclosures:— i£ Arthur's Hall," in St. Breward, and "the 

 Crow Pound," in St. Neot, are much smaller. They are of unknown origin. 

 Whether they were camps, places of assembly, or cattle-pens, has not yet been 

 determined. 



f Sir John Maclean recently sent me some to decipher, which I found to be 

 "To the gods of the shades. Of Mettus, or Mettius, a Getan (i.e. Goth). He 

 lived 35 years. His heir erected this." 



