THE EXPLORATION OF CAEN-BREA. 93 



It will be observed on tbe map that there are on Carn Brea 

 two separate enclosures — one around the present mediaeval castle, 

 and the other extending from just west of the castle to just west 

 of the monument — the latter area itself being subdivided at its 

 western end by a wall running, roughly, north and south, and 

 enclosing what is still known as the '' Old Castle." These walls 

 appear also in Sir Gardner Wilkinson's map in the Institution's 

 possession, and it is worth remarking that though Mr. Hill and 

 myself have included many things in our map that do not appear 

 in Wilkinson's, and differ slightly from him in the arrangement 

 of the southern walls, yet, where the maps have the same thing 

 marked, there is nowhere a variation in position amounting to 

 more than about one foot — a practical testimony to the correct- 

 ness of both maps. 



The walls bounding the eastern enclosure are of varied 

 construction — sometimes of small stones piled, sometimes of 

 stones from 18 inches to 3 J feet fixed on end, and fairly close 

 together, and on the north side for the most part of small 

 stones placed between the large earth-fast rocks, which, at this 

 point, drop vertically for several feet. In the illustration, of 

 what Dr. Borlase calls the " Judgment Seat," a part of the wall 

 is shown. These upright stones are what he calls '' pillars." 

 It will repay the trouble to compare this illustration with that 

 contained in the learned Doctor's '* Antiquities of Cornwall." 

 Within this enclosure are several very interesting interboulder 

 huts — i.e. huts, two or more sides of which are formed of 

 naturally placed boulders, with a suspicion in one or two eases of 

 their having been slightly '' slewed " round into a more con- 

 venient position. The divisions between the huts of the main 

 cluster are rows of low stones which do not show above the 

 surface, and were only found by observing the patches of dried 

 grass after the heavy frost of the winter of 1894-95. These 

 interboulder dwellings mostly had in them hearths or cooking- 

 holes, or both. In No. 17 hut was a neat cooking-hole with a 

 covering stone lying close by. In No. 24 was a very beautiful 

 specimen of a cooking-hole, which I have removed bodily for the 

 Museum. Three sides are formed each of a single granite stone — 

 the south side is built of smaller ones. The only stone in it 



