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Polyphant|ˈpɒlɪfənt|
Properly Pollaphant, name of a place between Bodmin and Launceston, whence polyphant stone, a kind of Cornish potstone, in colour between greenish and iron-grey.
[1830H. Boase in Trans. Geol. Soc. Cornwall (1832) IV. 224 Greenstones, both compact and schistose, prevail between Trewint and Pollaphant. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornwall, etc. 59 Near Pollaphant there is a kind of pot⁓stone which has been noticed by Dr. Boase, who states that not long before he wrote..several vessels formed of this stone had been discovered under the rubbish of an old quarry about a quarter of a mile distant.] 1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West II. 88 In the porch under the stone bench, a hare hunt is carved on polyphant stone. |