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flow in a purer condition into the low-level mould, • which is 
almost of the identical size as the moulds previously described. 
About a quarter of a mile further up the river, but on the 
western bank, is the other ruin, with an internal length of twenty- 
eight and a half feet by ten feet wide. The doorway, which is very 
imperfect, is on the eastern side, and is three feet nine inches 
wide. At the south extremity the wall is fairly perfect ; and at 
this end is a recess six feet long by three feet wide, similar, but 
smaller, to the recess already described in one of the ruins near 
Har Tor. There is one stone visible (two feet eight inches long 
by two feet four inches wide), containing a mould seventeen inches 
long, twelve inches wide, and from four to five inches deep. 
Mr. Thomas Kelly mentions another stone outside the hut with 
a similar mould, but so far I have been unable to find it. Close 
by is a British village with two large enclosures, and from forty to 
fifty hut circles. The foundations of some of these are in a fine 
state of preservation. 
The whole of the valleys have been turned over in streaming ; 
the usual mounds and heaps of debris, some neatly walled-up with 
dry work, abound. 
Excepting the two blowing-houses and the hut circles, no 
traces of habitations exist. The tinners probably utilised the 
foundations of their British ancestors for their dwellings. This 
is borne out by the apparently comparative modern remains on 
the hut circle above Week Ford, and on another circle, mentioned 
hereafter, at Deep Swincombe. 
The other blowing-house left for description within the scope of 
this paper is probably the most ancient and primitive of any of 
the rectangular ruins I have yet visited. 
It is situated in a valley washed by a small tributary stream of 
the river Swincombe, running about south from Swincombe Farm. 
The valley is known as Deep Swincombe, and the whole of it has 
been extensively streamed for tin. The blowing-house, or what 
remains of it, is concealed in a mound. It is twenty feet long by 
thirteen feet wide, the internal dimensions narrowing somewhat 
toward the south-west. The walls are thick, and built of stones 
dry laid, some being roughly-shaped. At this end, concealed by 
vegetation, is a chamber, completely enclosed and covered, six 
feet long, four feet wide, and about the same in height. The 
