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X. Account of Antiquities discovered in Cornwall, by the Rev. Malachy Hitchins, in a Letter to the Rt. Hon. Sir Joseph Banks, Bart. K.B. P.R.S. and F.S.A.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

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Since I did myself the honor of sending you a short account of three Roman Urns, and a newly-discovered cromlêh, a farmer who lives in the parish of Lanant, just four miles directly north of St. Michael's Mount, happening to be employed in digging up earth for manure, in the ditch of one of his fields; found a place where the ground was loose to more than an usual depth; which tempting him to search for the cause, at two feet under the surface he met with ashes; many celts, some entire and others broken; several pieces of copper swords; and heavy lumps of fine copper evidently brought thither for fusion, as there is every appearance that this was a military foundery.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1806

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