260 THE FOGOTJ AT HALLIGEY, TRELOWAERElSr. 



The present entrance is at A on the accompanying plan (Plate 

 2) ; this, however, is not the original one, but simply a hole 

 pierced through the side in modern times. On entering through 

 this, the explorer finds himself in a dark chamber or cave. It 

 is impossible without some artificial light to see more than a yard 

 in advance, or to know which direction to take. The sides ex- 

 hibit the rudest and most primitive kind of masonry, rough 

 blocks of unhewn stone being built up without cement or 

 attention to regularity in their courses ; these project somewhat 

 inwards until they reach the roof, formed of large blocks of 

 stone thrown horizontally across; the interstices, where not 

 closely fitting, are filled by smaller stones placed between. This 

 gallery, slightly curved, and running nearly east and west, 

 measures in length about 90 feet, and varies from three to five 

 feet in breadth ; it is not of uniform height, being about 6 feet 

 high in the middle, but lower towards the extremities. E on 

 the plan marks a decided step in the roof, and from this part to 

 the entrance F (Plates 2 and 3), the height is only 4 feet. At 

 C, a rock rises above the level of the floor, and a m.as8 of rock 

 forms the end of this gallery. The doorway, D, is 1 foot 4 inches 

 high, by 1 foot 4 wide, with jambs and lintel each of a single 

 stone, and leads into a chamber, B, about 6 feet long, lower than 

 the main gallery, but roofed in a similar manner. 



The gallery Q, which runs north and south is 28 feet in 

 length, 5 feet 6 inches in breadth, and 6 feet high. It is con- 

 nected to the other by an entrance F, 3 feet high by 2 feet 3 inches 

 wide, and with jambs and lintel placed somewhat regularly. In 

 the north end of this gallery a doorway H, 2 feet 3 inches high, 

 by 1 foot 6 inches wide (see Plates 2 and 4) opens into a chamber 

 or cell, I, 6 feet 6 inches long, 2 feet 3 inches wide, and 3 feet 

 high. At the end of this another entrance, J, 2 feet high by 1 

 foot 4 inches wide, gives access to the cell K, 6 feet long, 2 feet 

 wide, and 2 feet 6 inches high. 



The original entrance to the whole structure was at L, but it 

 is now blocked by a modern hedge. ^ 



In all the doorways the stones for jambs and lintels seem to 

 have been carefully selected, but none have been wrought into 

 form. As the immediate neighbourhood is not of a rocky charac- 

 ter, it must have been a work of considerable labour and time 



