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CORNWALL Trewoofe manor-house, but the genuine original doorway remains. Three calves' heads are sculp- tured above it, being the arms of the Levelis family ; of which family a monument at St. Burian tells us that it ' ' hath flourished here Since WilUani's Conquest full six hundred year ". The jambs of the doorway are sculptured with quaint figures and ornaments. This door is supposed to date from the time of Henry VIIL Trcwortha Marsli, on the Bodmin Moors (8 m. S.W. of Launceston), is a spot now lonely and desolate, but once evidently pulsing with full-blooded human life. The rock occupies the site of a boggy lake that appears to have been drained long since by tin-workers. We know that there were tin-streamers here in the time of Elizabeth ; we can believe with almost equal certainty that there were tin-workers here at the beginning of the Christian era — perhaps far earlier. To the W. of the Marsh are traces of a remarkable ancient settlement. Quoting from the Rev. Baring-Gould : "The houses were long and quadrangular ; one was apparently a council chamber, having a judge's seat in granite and benches of granite down the sides. Unfortunately these have been wantonly destroyed recently by a man who was building pigsties. The houses had separate bakeries, and two or three of these with their ovens remain in a tolerably perfect condition. The same