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 CORNWALL Bodmin Moors) is a circular rampart, with rectangular enclosure. The rectangle would point to Roman influence, but whether this was actually occupied by Romans cannot be said. Possibly Romanised Britons adapted an earlier entrenchment. St. Veep (3 m. N.E. of Fowey) is situated on a branch of the Fowey River. The name is supposed to be a corruption of St. Wymp or Wennapa, a sixth century Welsh saint, whose name is supposed also to survive in Gwennap. In 1336 Bishop Grandisson re- consecrated the church with a dedication to SS. Cyriacus and Julitta ; probably knowing little and caring less about the Celtic patron. The church is a combination of Dec. and Perp., restored. A ridge known as the Giant's Hedge passes through this parish ; an alterna- tive name for this is the Devil's Hedge, explained by an old couplet: — ' ' One day the devil, having nothing to do, Built a great hedge from Lerrin to Looe ". This ridge reached about 7 miles, from Lerrin Creek to West Looe, and entirely defended the whole track of land lying S. of Lanreath. It was connected with encampments at each end. Even now it is in places about 7 ft. high and 20 ft. wide. Like other similarly placed strongholds in Cornwall, it may have been thrown up by Goidelic Celts as a last defence against the Brythons, or perhaps by Ivernians against Celts ; for it was clearly inr 256