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No. 8. 

 Tolcam Cross. 

 Mr. Thomas Clark writes : — " on the 20th of February, I 

 re- visited the site of this cross, in company with the Rev. R. F. 

 Fraser-Frizell, rector of S. Allen. It was a plain cross of Pentewan 

 stone, — shaft, arms, and head. The shaft, as I have before stated, 

 served for many years as a gate post, and afterwards was cut in two 

 to make door sills for piggeries, but we found the said doorways so 

 deeply imbedded in manure as to prevent our approaching them. 

 The arms of this cross were some years ago used as quoins in 

 building a house at Tolcarn, but this house has been burnt down 

 since my last visit, and all trace of them is lost. Two of the 

 corner stones of the base were used in a building at Trefronick, near 

 Tolcarn, but a part of the wall has been taken down, and one of 

 the stones removed no one knows whither, but the other we found 

 in the N.E. corner of the dwelling house, in a good state of preserva- 

 tion, about 3 feet from the ground. Another part of the base is 

 serving as a doorstep to the mill at Lanner. At Trefronick is a 

 granite cross serving as a step at the back entrance, but which the 

 farmer and landowner have given to the Rev. R. F. Fraser-Frizell 

 to place in S. Allen Churchyard. In a meadow at Trevalso, near 

 Trerice- water, S. Allen, a granite cross is being used as a gate-post, 

 and this, too, Mr. Fraser-Frizell will endeavour to obtain. The 

 neighbourhood seems to be rich in relics of the past., and the Rector 

 offers a cordial invitation to the members of the Institution to 

 visit the various places of interest.'" 



