at Bosphrennis and Chapel Euny, near Penzance. 189 
in 1790, when the mound was removed for agricultural 
purposes ? 
The longitudinal chamber of the cave at Chapel Euny is 
on a lower level than the bee-hive chamber into which it 
leads, and is therefore furnished with an external entrance, 
as in the Irish example referred to at p. 128, whilst the bee- 
hive chamber is without any external entrance. At Bos- 
phrennis, on the contrary, the bee-hive chamber is the 
outer-room, and possesses the only external entrance, because 
that room is apparently (p. 123) on a lower level than the 
longitudinal one into which it leads. When a cave or hut 
on sloping ground has only one entrance, that entrance 1s, 
no doubt, generally at or near its lowest accessible part, 
whilst the highest, driest, and inmost part, is used chiefly as 
a sleeping apartment. 
The length of each dwelling is in a straight line running 
nearly north-west and south-east, of which the bee-hive 
chamber occupies about a dozen feet at the north-west end ; 
the remainder of the length is occupied by the longitudinal 
chamber, which is only 9 feet at Bosphrennis, but 18 feet 
at Chapel Euny. I do not call the latter chamber rectan- 
gular, because its side-walls are probably nearer each other 
at the roof than at the base, by reason of the stones over- 
lapping one another. As these walls and roof do not appear 
to have been ever disturbed, the Penzance Natural History 
and Antiquarian Society might, for the sake of their being 
examined and described, well lay out a few pounds in 
removing the heap within which they are now concealed. 
E. L. B.’s paper contains another passage on which anti- 
quarians will differ in opinion. It is this (p. 122):—‘ Those 
members who visited the stone-works at Carn Goch, in 
Caermarthenshire, in 1855, will remember that in the thick- 
ness of the walls were discovered low galleries formed by 
horizontal and vertical slabs, which were thought to have 
been used for the passage of sheep or goats in leaving or 
returning within the works. If they were intended for 
concealed sallyports for the use of the defendants, they 
could have been passed only on the hands and knees.” 
Borlase considered somewhat similar remains near Penzance 
(now entirely removed) to have been part of a British vil- 
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