ON THE DETRITAL TIN-ORE OF CORNWALL. 207 
twenty-two feet below high-water, and four or five above low-water 
mark,* an entire human skeleton was discovered. ; 
A rough balk, of about eight feet in length and six or eight 
inches in thickness, rudely hewn at the ends, lay on either side 
of,—nearly parallel to—but at some little distance from the body ; 
that on the left resting on the—slightly extended—hand. Across 
these were placed two, somewhat similar, beams; one of which 
pressed on the lower ribs, whilst the other covered the mouth and 
chin. A third cross-bar, of much the same kind,—so much 
shorter that it did not reach either of the side-pieces,—rested on 
the (raised) right-hand, but scarcely touched the skull. No corres- 
ponding piece of timber, however, had been placed at the foot. 
The body lay on its back, inclined perhaps five or ten degrees from 
the horizon, and looked towards the north or north-north-west ; 
the knees were raised, and the legs so drawn back that they were 
nearly parallel to the thighs, the heels, in fact had almost touched 
the hams ; the right-arm extended obliquely above the head, the 
left—at a smaller angle—downwards.t The pelvis, other bones, 
and undecayed—but much-worn—teeth, shewed the remains to 
«x Thomas, History of Falmouth, p. 31. Ante, p. 205. 
+ Lam favoured, by Messrs. Heard, with the following extract from the 
West Briton of the 4th of April, 1823 :—“ On Saturday [the 29th of March, 
‘* 1823] as the labourers employed at Carnon stream-works were removing 
“a quantity of mud, they discovered a heap of stones, under which were 
‘‘ four pieces of oak enclosing a human skeleton, the teeth and larger bones 
“of which were in nearly a perfect state. The tomb was covered with a 
‘deposit of mud 17 feet in depth, and was 22 feet below the present [high] 
‘“‘water mark, on what is denominated the ‘“ tin-ground,” namely, stones 
‘“‘ mixed with gravel amongst which tin is found. The four pieces of oak are 
‘‘ each about 8 feet in length, roughly hewn, and about 8 inches in diameter. 
“One of these pieces lay on each side of the body; the other two were laid 
‘‘across these, over the breast, the stones were piled over the whole. The 
‘“‘wood is more decayed than the timber found in these stream-works 
‘usually is.” 
To the Reverend Saltren Rogers, M.A., Vicar of Gwennap, I am indebted 
for the following contemporary memoranda, and for the sketch from which 
the accompanying wood-cut was prepared, discovered by his brother, Mr. 
John Jope Rogers, of Penrose, amongst the papers of their late father the 
Reverend Canon Rogers, M.A. 
From a printed paper ; apparently part of a Newspaper; dated 7th of 
April, [1823. ] 
“« The skeleton was found in a bed of soft clay containing shells, 17 feet 
‘¢ below the surface, 22 feet below high-water mark, and one foot above the 
“* tin-ground, lying in a direction across the valley, with the head nearly 
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