The Geologist/Volume 5/Notes and Queries, Notice of Human Remains in Cornwall

Notice of Human Remains in Cornwall.—Dear Sir,—While reading the Autobiography of Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, I met with the following passage in one of her letters, which, as bearing on a most interesting subject at the present time, deserves to be further investigated by those of your readers who reside near the place mentioned, in order to discover the truth of her statement.

In describing her journey from Truro to Falmouth, she says, "Near Gwennap is a place worth seeing, called Carnon Stream Works. Instead of mining for tin, they here direct streams over the sides of the hills, so as to wash down the loose tin, which is here termed 'stream tin.' Here have been found many interesting antiquities,—a pickaxe made of elk's-horn, flint arrow-heads, and human skeletons,—buried beneath several strata (alternately of fresh-water and marine shells), twenty-four feet from the present surface of the ground." This was written in 1825.

Yours truly, R. D., Berwick-upon-Tweed.