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X.—Notes on some Antiquities in East Cornwall. By R. N. Wort, 
PLymoutH; Corresponding Member of the Institution. 
Read at the Spring Meeting, May 23, 1871. 
HAVE to lay before the Members of this Institution a few 
notes on some Antiquities in East Cornwall which have re- 
cently come under my notice, and respecting which I am not 
aware that any precise record exists. 
The first is an ancient Camp on Tokenbury Hill, near the 
Caradons, about five miles north of Liskeard. It is not one of 
those described by Mr. M’Lauchlan. This Camp, which is known 
by the name of Roundaberry, lies on the northern slope of the 
hill, near its summit, and commands an exceedingly extensive 
prospect. It is an irregular circle, and includes an area of about 
two acres. The entrance is near the highest part, and faces 
almost due west. On either side of the opening is a huge 
stone post, the upper portion of which appears to have been 
rudely wrought, as if to receive a lintel. In the construction of 
the Camp advantage has been taken, in a somewhat peculiar way, 
of the natural slope of the ground. The defences towards the 
breast of the hill upwards, consist of a rampart, from 6 to 9 feet 
high, succeeded by a ditch, averaging 9 feet in depth, and about 
a dozen feet in width, with, on its outer edge, a further small 
rampart. At the lower end of the Camp the area is not protected 
by any raised earthwork. The hill has been cut away, so as to 
present an almost perpendicular face to any one approaching from 
below, and the resulting ditch has been made somewhat more 
formidable by the raising of a low rampart on its outer edge, as 
at the higher part of the Camp. These two systems of defence, 
the raised and the excavated ramparts, somewhat overlap each 
other at the sides of the enclosure, which would have been poorly 
defended if they had simply met. 
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