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VI.—Romano-British, or Late Celtic, remains at Trelan Bahow, St. 
Keverne, Cornwail, found about 1833.—By J. Jope RocErs, 
Penrose. 
Y the kindness of Mr. Edwards of Helston, I am enabled to 
record a small, but interesting discovery made on the Estate 
of Trelan Bahow, in the parish of St. Keverne, in this county, 
about 40 years ago, but unpublished until now. 
So long ago as the year 1833, Mr. Samuel James, the then » 
freeholder of the Estate of Trelan, had occasion to cut a new road, 
in extension of one already existing, through a large field called 
The Bahow.* In the course of the work, he came upon several 
graves situated in a sheltered place, on a northern slope of the 
land near the southern margin of Goonhilly Down. Mr. James 
died in America in 1865; but Mr. Edwards, who was employed 
by him professionally in selling the estate, subsequently to the 
discovery of the graves, relates that he was informed by Mr. James 
that they were two or three feet below the surface of the ground, 
and lay in a group together. Each grave was formed of six stones 
set on edge, two at each side, and one at each end, besides the 
covering stones : and they lay in a direction nearly East and West. 
In one of them was found a very perfect mirror of bronze, together 
with several beads of vitreous substance, and some rings of brass - 
strongly gilded, some in a perfect state, others fragmentary, with 
other bronze articles, such as parts of fibulee, &c., all apparently 
personal ornaments, and probably indicating the interment of a 
female ; there were also several implements of hard iron-stone. 
Several of these relics were dispersed at the time, for want of 
knowledge of their value, and they cannot now be traced; nor 
can I learn that any record of them was published even in the 
* Bahow, according to Dr. Borlase, Pryce, and Revd. Robert Williams, 
is a plural noun, signifying door- or gate-hinges. Tyrelan, in Cornish, is 
furzy place. 
