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In some British camps, where such galleries do not exist, 

 square or round- walled pits are found, as at Worle camp and in 

 a few of the Cornish " hill castles." These have been considered 

 store chambers ; whether they are in any way akin to the sub- 

 terranean galleries may be worthy of consideration. 



These subterranean passages are by the Cornish people 

 called Caves — in the Cornish language " Fogous." That at 

 Bolleit in St. Burian parish is still known as the " Fogou," and 

 the place in the parish of St. Keverne on which a cave was 

 situated is named 'Polkanoc/oii. In Ireland they are also known 

 as caves. 



In an account of two Irish missionaries of the seventh cen- 

 tury. Saints Marinus and Anianus, contributed to the Royal Irish 

 Academy by Dr. Reeves in the early part of the present year, we 

 read, " Finding their labours among the pastoral inhabitants of 

 the neighbourhood successful, they resolved upon settling in 

 this region for the rest of their days, and erected huts for them- 

 selves over two caves about two Italian miles asunder." There 

 can be little doubt that these structures are to be referred to a 

 very remote period, but to what exact date, or for what purjDoses 

 they were used is uncertain. It is to be hoped, however, that 

 they may be more carefully examined, and that some discovery 

 may be made within them, from which we may learn whether 

 they really were places for some of the purposes of the everyday 

 life of our rude forefathers, or whether in those long, gloomy 

 recesses were deposited the remains of the warlike tribes who 

 peopled the slopes and fortified the summits of the western 

 hiUs. 



[a^^ After the publication of the above description, Mr. Blight wrote and 

 illustrated a much more comprehensive account of another Fogou, viz : that at 

 Treveneage in St. Hilary, very similar in plan, and of special interest. (The 

 paper was issued by the Penzance Nat : Hist : and Antiquarian Society, in 1867). 

 In it he described the burnt condition of the Cave and its contents, the bones, 

 ashes, stone and iron ai-ticles, pottery (some with zig-zag ornamentation), found 

 in and around it ; the enclosing trench resembling in form that at Halligey. He 

 moi'e carefully considered the probable uses of Fogous, the burial-place theory, 

 and whether or not the ditch and mound were military or sepulchi'al. It is far 

 better worth reading than any of the preceding. W.I.] 



