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CORNWALL defensible at the time of the Civil War. It remained a stately ruin until a portion of its materials were utilised to construct a new mansion. There is a moat, a base-court, a lofty walled mound, and a gatehouse ; the castle, favoured by its position, never needed a regular keep. Whatever it may once have been, it can no longer be called an imposing ruin ; Mr. Baring-Gould says that it looks like a pork-pie. Trcreife (about i m. W. of Penzance), pronounced Treeve, is a fine seventeenth century mansion, situated in a beautifully wooded district. A yew has been trained against the wall of the house in a curious manner. Trcry)i, pronounced Treen, is the name of two hamlets, one in the parish of St. Levan, near the famous Logan Stone ; the other in the parish of Zennor, at Gurnard's Head. Both are connected with a dinas or castle. Trevcna. (See Tintagel.) Trevetliy or Trethevy Stone (i m. N.E. of St. Cleer) is one of the most imposing cromlechs in the duchy; it is 14 ft. 3 in. by 9 ft., supported with four slabs which form a kistvaen. There is a curious hole in the table-stone, such as have been often noticed in similar monu- ments, and clearly embodying some most ancient superstition. Probably the human remains were buried in the cairn beneath which the stones were raised ; but there may also have been interment in the kistvaen itself. Only about a mile W. of this is the Doniert or " half" 246