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traced. It covers an area of about 300 by 1 80 feet. The otter 

 is a mile or two distant in an oak coppice close to the Lynher 

 river near Knighton, called Upton Castle, and is a rounded 

 dyked enclosure, 80 feet in diameter, hedged around with rough 

 blocks of gi'anite, and situated on a boiilder-covered hillock. 

 Part of its site is said to have been subsequently used by 

 the prior and convent of S. Stephen, Launceston, as a monk's 

 cell. On Lang stone Farm, near Goad's Green, in Northhill, is a 

 circular "Ring" 400 feet in diameter, on high ground over- 

 looking the country from the Cornish to the Devon tors. Its 

 site is still well defined, but the outer mound has been nearly 

 defaced by the plough. On lower ground, half-a-mile eastward, 

 and on a steep bank near the Inney, is Killahury Beacon, on 

 Lanoy farm, an oval dyked site, 200 by 1 00 feet, and by the Lynher, 

 near Trebartha, is an earthwork called Allabury. In Linkin- 

 horne, are two ramparted and dyked rings, one called Rounddbury, 

 on Browda farm, covering about an acre of land, and the other 

 slightly smaller, close to the village. 



South-east from "Windmill Beacon, down the Tamar valley, 

 lie two more nearly obliterated village sites, the one at Cal Sill, 

 on Lawhitton Down, and the other on the summit of Castle Hill 

 Park, in Oreystone Wood, two miles further on. At Inney Foot 

 in Carthamartha Wood, is a well defined oval embankment 

 measuring 300 by 400 feet within. From this place we travel 

 four or five miles along the Callington road to the historical 

 Kingston Down, and on to the top of that noted landmark Kit 

 Sill, where at an altitude of 1091 feet, is an ancient earthwork of 

 apparently later construction than any of the others mentioned in 

 this paper. It is square in form with an external round at each 

 corner, and has an internal area of 150 by 140 feet. From it 

 is obtained a most extensive view, including the sites of four 

 other " Rings " which I did not inspect, one about a mile south 

 of Callington called " Castlewitch,''^ another at the head of a 

 valley running in fi'om the Tamar, just above Cotehele, in S. 

 Dominick parish, and the other two in St. Ive and Quethiock, 

 called "Tokenbury" and "Hammett" camps. About a mile 

 from Callington by the Lynher, and in S. Ive parish, is the last 

 of the old world "encampments" in my list, Cadsonhury. This 

 occupies the whole of the flat summit of a conical hill rising 



