(ho ie NOTES ON ANTIQUITIES IN EAST CORNWALL. 
A horizontal section from north to south will perhaps more 
clearly indicate the form of these earthworks than any mere de- 
scription. 
The ditch and ramparts are now in most parts overgrown with 
trees. They are complete, except at two points, where they have 
been interfered with by mining operations. On the hill above is 
along barrow. I should add that the proprietor of the estate, 
Mr. S. Eliott, of Plymouth, takes the most sedulous care for the 
preservation of these interesting remains. 
The other matter to which I desire to call the attention of the 
Institution is the evidence of ancient smelting operations in the 
valley which runs from Temple Church towards Warleggan. 
Traces of streaming are discoverable from one 
end to the other; and recently in constructing 
clay works two of the stone moulds used by 
the old smelters were found. They present no 
peculiarity; one is here figured. 
I wish, however, particularly to refer to the remains of an old 
streamers’ village, on a tenement called Lower Hill House, the 
property of Mr. Bate. Here the foundations of several huts may 
be traced, probably constructed, as the modern clay-workers in the 
same valley have constructed shelters, of a foundation of stones 
and a superstructure of turf. The most interesting feature is the 
old smelting-house, the furnace of which is still in part intact. 
The house is circular in shape; and immediately opposite where 
the entrance once was is the smelting place, circular also and built 
up of granite, which has been reddened and partially disintegrated 
by the action of heat. Pieces of slag, and occasionally of metallic 
tin, are found on and near the sites of these smelting-houses, of 
which there were certainly at one time three in the valley within 
a comparatively short distance of each other. I should add that 
T am indebted to the Rev. C. M. Edward Collins, of Trewardale, 
for having called my attention to the existence of these remains, 
