100 flower's barrow. 



hand as you enter the fortress from the east; and some sem- 

 blance of an external earth-work, towards the west. But these 

 do not extend round, nor are they of sufficient height, to be 

 named as another rampart and ditch. Hutchins also mentions 

 some slight ramparts, towards the south, next the sea: If such 

 ever existed, there is no trace remaining of them at the present 

 time beyond a mound in one place, which may have formed a 

 part. Such an embankment might perhaps have been raised 

 with a view of protection from the wind ; but it is obvious that 

 the fortification on that side, is already too strong from its natural 

 situation, to require any assistance from art, as the cliff is too 

 steep to be accessible by the most daring climber. The principal 

 approach is, as has been already mentioned, on the eastern side. 

 There the range of hill, which is nearly level, allows of an easy 

 access: and this must have been, not only the principal, but 

 almost the only entrance, the other being on the declivitous side 

 of the hill towards the north-west, totally impracticable for car- 

 riages of any sort, and which, from this circumstance, might be 

 more properly considered to have been a sally-port, than an 

 entrance. 



The height of the outer, as well as the inner ramparts, are 

 about the same proportions, from fifteen to twenty yards, mea- 

 suring the slope, from the top of the ramparts, to the bottom of 

 the ditch. The entrance gateway towards the eastern side, 

 strictly speaking, faces the south-east ; requiring from its situa- 

 tion, the assailing force to approach it by a side movement, in 

 doing which they would necessarily be flanked by the ramparts, 

 lined with its defenders. On reaching this gateway, which, as 

 I have said faces south-east, the observer must be struck with 

 its peculiar position, and its great adaptation to resist, from its 

 situation, the assaults of a besieging force. The rampart, as well 

 as the gate, is situated on the brow of the hill, allowing only a 

 very narrow passage of a few yards -wide, for the besiegers to 

 pass round, and where indeed it would be impossible for any 

 large force to be collected, from the hill falling so precipitately 

 towards the sea. On passing through this, we enter upon a wide 

 level space of about thirty two yards. To the right, some way 

 towards the north, is the earth-work already referred to, and 

 which Hutchins may have mistaken for a third intrenchment, 

 but which, in reality, appears only to have been a small inner 



