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No other inscribed stone in Cornwall besides this one has 

 been regarded as a military tombstone. Latin names however 

 occur not only on this one, but also on some of the other 

 Roinano-British stones, e.g. Latinus (at Slaughter Bridge, 

 Worthy Vale, Camelford), Senilus (at St. Just, Penwith), Severus 

 (at Pawton, St. Breoke), Yitalis (at St. Clement's). 



But we must now describe the other camp in Cornwall 

 which, like Tregaer, has been acknowledged to have yielded 

 indisputable evidence of Roman origin and occupation. 



BOSENS CAMP, St. ERTH. 



This Roman intrenchment, 4 miles north-east of St. Michael's 

 Mount, occupies in West Cornwall a position analagous to that 

 of Tregaer by Nanstallon in East Cornwall. 



It is about midway between the north and south coasts. It 

 lies on the north side of the Marazion* and St. Hilary road 

 leading to Redruth, and by straight-line measurement, is distant 

 3 or 4 miles from the first-named place, 2^ north of Pentreath, 

 and 3 south of Hayle, which is on the St. Ives Bay estuary. 



Bronze weapons have been found in the neighbourhood. 

 Leland has recorded in his Itinerary: — "Markjue and the 

 Mount be both in St. Hillaries paroche. There was found, of 

 late yeres syns, spere heddes, axis for warre, and swerdes of 

 coper, wrappid up in lynin, scant perishid, nere the Mount in 

 St. Hilaries paroche, in tynne workes." 



In the same parish (St. Erth) in which Bosens camp is 

 situate, there is said to have been a second Romanf intrenchment 

 at Carhangives, much less perfect, the remains of which exist on 

 the summit of a hill, south of the road leading eastward, about 



Bonifacies, handsome-face ; Bonifatus, lucky, fortunate : Bonimoris, good- 

 mannered ; (glosses on the Greek Euprosopos, Eumoiros, and Kalotropos) . In 

 modern guise, derived in a similar way, we have Boniface, benefactor ; Benedict, 

 well-spoken of, praised ; and this last brings to our minds the expression used in 

 Divine Service, and found on many a bell in our church towers :— Nomen Domini 

 sit benedictum ! — The Lord's name be praised ! — Blessed be the name of the 

 Lord ! 



* For derivation of Marazion or Market- Jew, see Williams, &c. , and an 

 exhaustive dissertation in Bannister's paper on " Jews in Cornwall." The name 

 eems to signify " The Markets," or trading Mart, or something allied to this. 



f Hist, of Cornwall, Lake, Truro, Vol, 1, p. 364. 



