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DAMELIOC— DAWNS MEN day historians and antiquaries do not seem to have troubled much about the identification of Damelioc; but it is now discovered here as a strong earthwork or camp, exactly answering to the details of the story. The entrenchment is specially large. Dr. Dickinson {King Arthur in Cornwall) says that "it once consisted of three concentric ramparts, of which two remain effective if not complete, while portions of a third and outer are still to be seen. . . . The enclosure, measuring from the inside of the middle rampart (the outermost is not complete enough to reckon by) has a diameter of about 170 yd., and a circumference of about 530 yd." Damelioc is one of the three places that may with certainty be associated with Arthur, so far as anything is certain in his story; the other two being Tintagel and Kelly Rounds. To these may perhaps be added Cardinham. Davidstow (5 m. N.E. of Camelford) is locally often called Dev/stow ; Dewi being still the Welsh form of the name David. There are a number of "stows" in the N.E. of Cornwall, seeming to prove that this part of the duchy was more Saxonised than any other; and several of these, like this of Davidstow, retain their Celtic dedications. The church, a blend of Dec. and Perp., has recently been restored. Dawns Men (2 m. E. of St. Buryan), the Dancing Stones, sometimes called " Merry Maidens," is a very fine stone circle. Popular fancy has explained the stones as having once