The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . At Church Town [ (1902), xv. 113 ; Daniel, 137, viii. 8]Wencron.—At Grumbla, i^ miles north-west of Gweek [ Ixxvi. 7]Whitstone.—AtHikonWood [Lysons, ccxlvii. ; (1902), xv. 112, vi. 13] * Froxston Castle „ „ „ „ ,,113 PROBABLE ROMAN CAMPS Bodmin.— Tregear at Nanstallon. No systematic investigation has been made, but variousobjects, many of them of undoubted Roman origin, have been found here from time totime. A full list and description are given in (1890), x. 211, etc. The campis square-sided with rounded corner
The Victoria history of the county of Cornwall . At Church Town [ (1902), xv. 113 ; Daniel, 137, viii. 8]Wencron.—At Grumbla, i^ miles north-west of Gweek [ Ixxvi. 7]Whitstone.—AtHikonWood [Lysons, ccxlvii. ; (1902), xv. 112, vi. 13] * Froxston Castle „ „ „ „ ,,113 PROBABLE ROMAN CAMPS Bodmin.— Tregear at Nanstallon. No systematic investigation has been made, but variousobjects, many of them of undoubted Roman origin, have been found here from time totime. A full list and description are given in (1890), x. 211, etc. The campis square-sided with rounded corners. It lies low near the river, and is completelyoverlooked by Dunmere Woods (see Bodmin Sup.) [Daniel, 143 ; 31st Rep.(1849), p. 21 and plan ; Maclean, i. 114 and plan] St. Erth.—At Bosence. No systematic search has been made. In 1756 the farmer foundand cleared out a pit 36 feet deep in the west corner, in which a bowl with an inscriptionon the bottom, a jug and other articles, probably Roman, were found. Dr. Borlase 470. St. Martin in Meneage, TremainEo lifa c^ye. -^ C£ •wQ N A HI QQ|\I^ <a SCALEOFFeCT^ <jo too 5po s^a- Wendron, EARTHWORKS, LIST III., DIVISION II. 471 A HISTORY OF CORNWALL described the bowl and jug as made of tin, but they are of pewter and lead full account with a plan of the camp is given by Dr. Borlase in the Antiquities ofCornwall^ p. 316, and for a further description and interpretation of the inscription (1890), X. 237, etc. This camp is also square-sided with rounded corners,and is overlooked by Pencair Castle (see Breage, List II.). It is now nearly obliterated[^Borlase, 316 and plan ; Lysons^ ccxlvii. ; Gilbert-^ 29th Rep. (1847), p. 39 andplan, Ixix. 14] List IVOTHER EARTHWORKS Braddock at Taphouse.—Dr. Borlase in searching for traces of a Roman road betweenLostwithiel and Liskeard records the existence in his day of a long mound at this pointwhich he concluded
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