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u There are the remains of a caufey between Lifkerd and Looe, 
near Polgover, the feat of Mr. Mayow, which, as well as the crofs 
road from Dulo to Heafenford, vulgar tradition makes to be Ro- 
man r .” That the Romans had ways in thefe eaftern parts of the 
county about Loo and Loftwythyel, the following ancient work, 
fhewn me by the Reverend Mr. Howel, Redtor of Lanreath, (June 
25 and 26, 1756) will abundantly confirm : It is called the Giant’s Giant’s 
Hedge ; a large mound which reaches from the valley in which hed s e °- 
the two boroughs of Eaft and Weft Loo are fituated, to Leryn, 
on the river Fawy *: It is firft vifible on Weft-Loo down, about two 
hundred paces above the mills, whence it runs to Kilmaenarth 
woods ; from and through them to Trelaun wood, about three 
hundred paces above Trelaun mills ; then through little Larnic to 
the Barton of Hall, in which there are two circular encampments 
about four hundred paces to the north of it ; thence quite through 
the faid Barton, making the northern boundary of a field on the 
glebe of Pelynt Vicarage, called Furz Park ; then crofs the Barton 
of Tregaric, and thence through the north grounds of Trefaffon and 
Polventon to the glebe lands of the Redtory of Lanreath, where I 
meafured it feven feet high and twenty feet wide at a medium ; 
thence it ftretches through the tenement of Wyllacomb to Trebant 
water, whence it proceeds through the Barton of Langunnet and 
Ibme fmaller tenements to Leryn, from which there is a fair dry 
down, called St. Winnow Down, leading north along to Loftwy-^ 
thyel. This Rilbank, or mound, ranges up-hill and down-hill 
indifferently ; has no vifible ditch continued on any brow of a hill, 
as intrenchments always have ; there is no hollow or fofs on one 
fide more than the other ; it is above feven miles long, and tends 
ftraight from Loo to Leryn creek, in the direct line from Loo to 
Loftwythyel. By all thefe properties, its height and breadth, its 
wanting the Ioffes of fortification, its ftraightnefs and length, the 
grandeur of the defign, and the labour of execution, I judge, that 
it can be nothing lefs than a Roman work ; in this fuppofition I 
am the more confirmed, firft, becaufe feveral Roman coins have 
been found on the banks of Fawy river, (as fee Antiquities of Corn- 
wall, page 282) and as I have been informed alfo * in the run of 
this notable work ; fecondly, by its tendency to the firft ford over 
the navigable river of Fawy ; for it muft be obferved that the Ro- 
mans thoroughly fenfible of the delays and hazards of crofting 
firths and arms of the fea, and the danger of bridges getting into 
the poffeftion of the natives, were equally adverfe both to bridges 
r Letter, April 25, 1755, from J. Trehawk, to the Geography of the County. 
Efq; to whofe kind communications the preceding * Alias Fowey. 
flieets are much indebted, efpecially with regard * Letter from the forementioned gentleman. 
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