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“Cross”, shaped like a plain post, but having upon the front and 
back of its upper portion, a Latin Cross cut in relief. : 
The day’s excursion terminated at Newquay, the thriving 
little port and watering place which has long outlived the sneer 
cast upon it by Carew.* Here—in the National School Room— 
tea was gratefully accepted by the excursionists. 
On the second day, the excursionists proceeded from Newquay 
to Trevelgue Head, for inspection of its now celebrated Barrows, 
which had been previously explored by Mr. W. Copeland Borlase, 
F.S.A. The results of his investigations are now recorded in his 
elaborate work “Neenia Cornubie.” These two Barrows are 
situate on the summit of the Cliff; and their more remarkable 
features are: (1) That their bases are connected on the northern 
side by a semi-circular bank. (2) That the western one is almost 
entirely composed of earth burnt as red as brick. (3) That each 
contains megalithic chambers. (4) That in the eastern one a con- 
tracted skeleton was found, together with a beautifully formed 
stone-hatchet, or axe-hammer, of small size. Mr. Borlase de- 
scribed, with much precision and fulness, the circumstances in 
which he had made his investigations and discoveries here ; and, 
as an interesting memento of the Society’s visit, photographs of 
the party, grouped in and on the western barrow, were taken by 
Mr. May, of Plymouth. 
Remains of the formidable fortification at Treveleué Head 
were next inspected ; and an ancient British eating-place, originally 
discovered by Mr. Nicholls, of Trevelgué, was pointed out. It 
contains shells, charred matter, and bones; the latter including 
what Professor Owen has pronounced to be those of bos longifrons. 
Attention was called by Mr. Copeland Borlase to a remarkable 
flint “chipping-place” at the point of the Island, and many flints 
were found, of the palzolithic type; Mr. Whitley, however, 
expressing his opinion that, ike others of which he had written, 
they were not the result of man’s handiwork, but the product of 
natural causes, and had been carried to the place where they were 
found, by the “northern drift.” 
After inspection of the Caverns, and especially of “The 
Cathedral”, the party proceeded to St. Cubert, where, in the 
western side of the church tower is an Early Inscribed Stone.t 
e «The place was called New Quay because in former times the neigh- 
bours attempted to supply the defects of nature by art, in making there a 
quay for shipping, which conceit they still retain, although want of means 
in themselves or in the plan have left the effect in nubibus.” 
f See Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall, No. V, p. 55. 
