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 ^6 Devon Notes aud Queries. known to require further description. Possibly, however, a few prints of objects connected with it will not be unacceptable. I. — Represents the Beehive hut on a small tributary (w.) of the Erme, above Pile's Wood and Stalldon Barrow. It is 4 feet in diameter internally, 2 feet 10 inches high, with a banked-up entrance and passage on the west side. A similar hut, larger, but not in as perfect condition, is in Evilcombe, between Harter Tors and Calveslake Tor, where the general mining debris are extensive. The walls of this hut are still standing to 4 feet 6 inches ; its diameter, 3 feet from floor, is 5 feet. There are reported to be three huts of this kind near Yealm Steps, but those I have not yet seen. 1 1 -II I. — Represent the mouldstones in the ruins near Yealm Steps. My notes as to dimensions are as follows : — U^er blowing -house: Length, 29 feet; width not exactly determinable, but 10 feet at southern end, within recess. Mouldstones just inside e. wall ; southernmost i foot 4 inches x 11^ inches; northern broken. Lower blowing' house : 25 feet 6 inches x 13 feet ; small d6pendance 10 feet X 12 feet at south side, ruinous. One large double mould- stone perfect; two moulds on different levels, upper i foot 2^ inches x 8^ inches x 3^ inches deep, communicating by channel with lower, i foot 6 inches x 11 inches x 4 inches to 5 inches deep. (These measurements are at the top ; the sides of the moulds slope downwards, the bottom measure- ments being correspondingly less.) Small trying-mould oa rim, near latter, 4J inches x 3 inches, shallow. Another mouldstone, also double, broken, a few feet west. IV. — Meavy, under Black Tor, Princetown. Here there are ruins of a building, 19 feet x 11 feet internally, with the south wall still standing to about 5 feet, and the fireplace, in the N.w. corner, fairly perfect. This contains two mortar- stones in the s.s. corner. First stone, 2 feet 3 inches ^^ I foot 4 inches ; one mortar perfect, 8 inches diameter, 3^ inches deep ; one broken, 7 inches x 2 inches deep. Second stone, 2 feet i inch x i foot 5 inches; two perfect mortars at 4^ inches distance from each other, diameter 6^ inches and 6 inches, and depth 2 inches and i^ inches respectively. Similar cavities are on the reversie side of these stones also. Across the stream there is another ruin,