188 Mr R. Edmonds on the Bee-hive British Dwellings 
perfect state are known in Cornwall.” But in the Reports 
of this Institution for 1857 and 1858, and also in my pub- 
lished account of the Landsend District (p. 52), I have 
noticed a similar and probably a more perfect one five miles 
S.8.W. of it, which I accidentally met with at Chapel Euny, 
in Sancreed, and which I called a ‘‘ Bee-hive cave,” because 
it was originally, with the exception of its entrance, buried 
beneath thick turf. I suspect this was the case also with 
the bee-hive dwelling at Bosphrennis, and that the opening 
described as “ the small window” was made merely for 
ventilation. The two dwellings resemble one another in 
most respects so closely that I see no reason why they 
should not have been likewise both caves with their en- 
trances concealed by furze or other evergreens, like the 
well-known longitudinal cave at Boleit in St Buryan. In 
fact, the little that remains of the roof at Bosphrennis is 
still covered with turf. 
It appears to me that in the Landsend District isolated 
_ British dwellings, having no central areas open to the sky, 
were, with the exception of their concealed entrances, gene- 
rally buried beneath heaps of earth or stones, and then 
covered with turf or growing furze, briers, and thorns, thus 
appearing externally, if they rose above the level of the 
adjoining land, as mere natural elevations, the tops or roofs 
of which were used by their occupants as watchtowers. 
This I consider to have been the original description of the 
Bosphrennis dwelling. For when thus buried, it would 
have been difficult for an enemy either to discover or to 
destroy it, whereas if it were a mere hut, with walls all 
exposed as at present, it could have been easily discovered 
and quickly pulled down. Moreover, such an unprotected 
dwelling would have been quite out of place in the Lands- | 
end district, where the remains of numerous strongly forti- 
fied hill castles, cliff castles, and walled towns and villages, 
indicate a locality that was once continually exposed to 
hostile incursions. If it be asked, where are the traces of 
this dwelling having been ever thus buried? I ask in 
return, where are the traces of the huge mound of earth 
within which we know that the large Cromlech of West 
Lanyon in Madron was completely buried until its discovery 
