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(F). Mill-stone; small; diam. about 18-ins. ; displays marks 



of use. 

 (G). Fragments of horns, bones of various sizes, half -burnt 



sticks, many pieces of leather (some pierced with holes) 



shreds of worn-out shoes (the calceus) &c 



The metal and stone articles mentioned above are deposited 

 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, all having been presented 

 by the B.ev. Dr. Borlase except one of the weights, which Davies 

 Gilbert added. There are with them two pieces of red pottery 

 which Mr. Haverfield considers also formed part of this collection 

 of relics found at Bossens.f 



From an examination of these remains, — the well in which 

 they were found, and the Camp itself, Borlase came to the 

 conclusion that they indicated something more than the mere 

 halting place of a column on the march. The fort, although 

 small, was of such a character, with towers projecting beyond 

 its simple vallum, and with a deep well so carefully formed 

 within it, that it must have been (he considered) one of those 

 fortified posts called Castra ^Estiva. 



The summer season, or earlier, and down to December, in a 

 moderate climate, being the appropriate time for campaigning, 

 called into requisition such camps as would serve as strongholds 

 without assuming the formidable dimensions of the winter 



f 2 other stone Patera or bowls, found in St. Just, Cornwall, and presented 

 by Borlase, are in the same Museum, Mr. Haverfield informs me. Measuring 4f 

 and 5^-inches in diameter, they are doubtless those figured and described in the 

 Antiquities (pp. 288-9, pi. 21, 1st edition), see Lysons, ccxxiii, Note n. 



Another stone Patera, 10-ins. in diam. and 3-ins. high, found at Ludgvan, 

 was included in the same plate and description, and Borlase has further shewn 

 some bronze articles : — an animal's head, a hinge, and a strainer, which were 

 discovered at the foot of Carn Brea hill, 3-feet underground, together with a pint 

 of Roman coins of 4th century (pp. 287-8, and 279, pi. 5). Other finds of British 

 and Roman coins mentioned by him, are also of special interest, as bearing on 

 this part of our subject, but to them we cannot now allude further than to observe 

 that Cornwall is said to have yielded money made of leather, lead, iron, bronze, 

 silver and gold. The bronze dagger-blade found in St. Ewe and figured by 

 Borlase (PL xxv, and p. 311, 2nd Ed.) and some celts from Cornwall are also in 

 the Ashmolean museum. The bronze bull, marked on the side with a crescent, and 

 supposed to be either Phoenician or Roman, is in the Truro Museum. It was 

 found at St. Just-in-Penwith, and has been often figured and described. Roman 

 bronze mirrors &c, &c, have also been discovered in Cornwall. 



