CONSTANTINE, a parish in the hundred of KERRIER,
county of CORNWALL, 6 miles (S. W. by W.)
from Falmouth, containing 1671 inhabitants. The living
is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Cornwall,
and diocese of Exeter, rated in the king's books at
£19.3.10., and in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter
of Exeter, The church is dedicated to St. Constantino.
There is a place of worship for Wesleyan Methodists.
The navigable river Hel runs on the southern side of
this parish, and the village is situated upon an eminence
nearly surrounded by tin works. The petty sessions
for the division are held here. On the right of the road
from Penr'yn to Helston is a vast rock of granite, computed
to weigh seven hundred and fifty tons, called the
Tolmen, from the Cornish words, Toll, a hole, and Maen,
a stone: it is in the shape of an egg, with several excavations
on the top, and is curiously poised on two
others: at a short distance there is another mass of a
circular form, resembling a cap. At Boscawen, in this
parish, is a subterraneous passage, termed Piskey Hall,
thirty feet long, five feet wide, and six feet high, formed
of rude stones. The sites of decayed chapels are still
discernible at Benallock and Budockwean. Near the
church, where formerly stood a cross, a bag full of silver
coins of kings Arthur and Canute was discovered about
the close of the seventeenth century.