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Object type: Alleged font bowl
Measurements: H. 38 cm (15 in); Diam. of top of bowl c. 44.5 cm (c. 17.5 in); Diam. of bottom of bowl 30.5 cm (12 in)
Stone type: Coarse-grained granite with feldspars and quartz in roughly equal proportions. The white feldspar megacrysts are up to 15 x 5 mm across; the quartz crystals are up to 8 mm. There are a few flakes of white mica and some intergrown tourmaline. Carnmenellis Granite
Plate numbers in printed volume: Ills. 248-9, 356
Corpus volume reference: Vol 11 p. 212
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Plain bowl-shaped object, beneath Camborne 2 (p. 130, Ills. 39–40). In this position, it is impossible to determine any more information about it.
Appendix A item (stones of uncertain date)
Thomas stated that 'nothing is known of its previous history, nor indeed whether it is really hollowed out, but there must remain a strong suspicion that, like the altar slab, it was found in the ruins of St. James' chapel in 1840 and is the 11th-century font belonging to that chapel' (Thomas, A. C. 1967a, 115–16).
It is remarkably similar in size to Tintagel 4 (Trethevey, Ills. 277–9) and Boscastle 1 (Ills. 246–7). For the latter, the possibility of a non-ecclesiastical origin has been suggested above. Like Trethevey, which is similarly inaccessible because of re-use, Camborne 3 cannot be fully assessed and must remain of uncertain origin and date.
