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Rh the capstone. Half a mile beyond the so-called Cromlech we come on two famous monuments, viz. Mên-an-Tol (holed stone) and Mên Scryfa (inscribed stone). Turning to the left we come to Chûn, where there is a group of interesting antiquities, including a hill castle or fort, a dolmen and an ancient British village.

Chûn Castle is of an oval shape, 180 feet long by 170 feet broad, and consists of two concentric ditches alternating with dry-stone walls. The inner wall is 20 feet thick, and, before it was plundered of its stones more than a century ago, it is said to have been at least 10 feet high. The dolmen, which has its stones covered with a thick coating of lichens, stands in solitary grandeur about 250 yards to the west of the castle. It consists of a large capstone supported on four pillar-stones enclosing a chamber 7 feet in height. It was formerly covered by a tumulus of earth and stones and surrounded by a circle of standing stones.

A quarter of a mile to the east of the ruined castle is the site of the ancient British village of Bosullo, which appears to have been connected with the former by a paved way.

About a mile to the south there are the ruins of another hut-village situated on the slope of a hill at Bodinar, in which, "within the memory of man," there were beehive huts to be seen, but they are all now in