244 THE rOGOTJ AT HALLIGEY, TRELOWAHREN. 



To the Director G-eneral of tlie Ordnance Survey at South- 

 ampton and officers of his staff, I am indebted for a recent plan 

 of the locality, and for information bearing upon it. 



Our sincere thanks are therefore due to all whom I have 

 mentioned. 



To suit the size of our pages, I have arranged in the form of 

 four plates the six blocks so obligingly lent by the Society of 

 Antiquaries, preceding them with an anastatic copy of the late 

 Sir Richard Yyvyan's plan, together with a small sketch of the 

 Well as it at present appears. 



Absence from the excursion, and other causes, prevented my 

 visiting the Fogou until lately, when Lady Vyvyan kindly took 

 me to see it. 



Some account of the present condition of the place will now 

 be given in the hope that as an introduction, my notes may 

 serve to illustrate the more elaborate papers which are to follow. 



The Cave is situate about the third of a mile due west of 

 Trelowarren Mansion, from which a straight road leads to it 

 through the fields. On approaching the spot it is observed that 

 the hedges and house walls display an abundance of good blocks 

 of stone, some being of serpentine. 



At present Halligey consists of half a dozen dwellings with 

 enclosures of land in their rear. Beneath some of these closes, 

 towards the north-west, the Fogou or artificial cave lies buried. 

 The Well is about 200 yards from the Fogou, and in the opposite 

 direction; being at the end of a hedged lane, south-east from the 

 principal house-front. Its neatly protected clear pool appears 

 perfectly still, but a quiet stream flows from it, and the spring 

 (it is said) never fails. The stone-work of the well is, in style, 

 so similar to that of the portals and walling within the cave that 

 some think it must anciently have pertained to the precincts of 

 that mysterious hold. The fosse which formerly defended the 

 area in which the Fogou is found, seems to be almost identical 

 with the outer encircling hedge on the east and south-east of 

 Halligey as shewn in the Ordnance Map. If continuous, the 

 rampart and ditch must have passed between the Fogou and the 

 Well, but the latter may have been enclosed within an outwork, 

 if any such extended from the fort. — (See Plate.*) 



