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ANTIQUITIES one case, that above Cape Cornwall, the pile was surrounded by an outer wall composed of 1 50 blocks of granite set up edgeways, and each 7 or 8 feet long. This formed at once the enclosing ring and the basement of the immense pile of stones which lay within. The diameter of the pile was 67 feet N. and S. and about 80 feet E. and W. On the western slope of a hill at Tregaseal, in the parish of St. Just, there is a large tumulus, oval in plan, and measuring in diameter 41 feet from N.W. to S.E., and about 30 feet from N.E. to S.W. This upon examination was found to contain a fine stone chamber, the sides of which were formed by slabs of granite, four on one side and five on the other, terminat- ing at the N.W. by a single block, and at the S.E. by a smaller stone which had fallen in- wards. At the N.W. end of this remarkable chamber a rudely constructed cist was found, and from the earth with which the cist was filled a magnificent sepulchral urn, upwards of 20 inches high, was procured. The vessel possesses two handles, is of distinctly artistic form, and bears a band of ornamentation on the hip consisting of a number of crossed lines which form lozenges and triangles. This is perhaps one of the most remarkable sepulchral urns of its class ever found in England. Roman remains are distinctly few ; and of purely Roman camps we can not point with certainty to one. Norman castles are also few and poor ; Cornwall was never subdued by 35