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 CORNWALL (9) Dwellings, consisting of one or more chambers, and occurring in clusters or groups. There are examples at Chysauster, Gulval, at Bosporthcnnis, Zennor, and at Row-tor, St. Breward. At Sancreed there is a remarkable subterranean dwelling known as Chapel Euny Cave, the walls of which are built of large stones. It is worthy of note that caves which are common in Scilly are not found in Cornwall, except in two or three instances at St. Just. Probably most, if not all, of the megalithic remains of Cornwall may be reasonably referred to either the Neolithic Age or the Bronze Age, but the fact that this is a stone district must be borne in mind in pronouncing upon the question, because it is not at all unlikely that the use of unhewn stone may have survived longer here than in those districts which ftirnished a greater variety of materials for building. .At the same time, one cannot com- pare the plan of these ancient dwellings in Cornwall with that of the neolithic dwellings of Devonshire, Kent and Surrey, without being impressed with their many points of similarity. Bronxc Age. — The occurrence of both tin and copper in the rocks of Cornwall probably had a very considerable effect in attracting those who in the Bronze Age had learned the secret of smelting metal. As a matter of fact the antiquities belonging to this period found in Cornwall are numerous and important. Here, as elsewhere, these antiquities arc found under two sharply divided conditions. First we find 32