42 SOME ANCIENT BRITISH REMAINS. 



cross the Suspension Bridge, and pass along the road skirt- 

 ing Nightingale Valley; and then through Beggar Bush Lane 

 to its ending. Turn now to the left, along the road bound- 

 ing the west end of Ashton Park, as far as where there are 

 some large wooden gates in the boundary wall. On the 

 other side of the road is a gate. Enter the field through 

 this and go south, along the east side of the limestone 

 quarry and kilns, to a gateway leading into the high road 

 from Clevedon, which passes towards Bristol through 

 Clarken Combe. Directly opposite is another gate, from 

 which a footpath runs by the side of a hedge to a stile, 

 close to the N.W. corner of a small copse (called " Iron 

 Plantation " on the map), which surrounds an old, and 

 unused, quarry of a peculiarly narrow, elongated shape. To 

 the west of this wood we come upon the first portion of the 

 group of ancient remains. The ground, in the summer 

 and autumn, is covered with long coarse grass and tall 

 bracken, so that it is not by any means easy to trace the 

 course of some of the Batiks of earth and stone which exist 

 here. Some of them are, however, well-marked and pro- 

 minent objects ; but even these, when they approach the 

 modern stone fences and hedges which enclose the ground, 

 become less in size, and ultimately disappear. The fence- 

 builders have evidently utilized the loose, moderate-sized 

 stones of which they were mainly composed. Seven distinct 

 Banks, which run almost due north and south, can be traced 

 for distances varying from 20 or 25, up to 120 or 130, yards. 

 Another which runs for 90 yards, from N.W. to S.E., joins 

 two of the former Banks obliquely. 



Eight yards west of the central one of the seven nearly 

 parallel Banks, and 25 yards from its northern end, is an oval 

 mound, about 9 by 7 yards in size. This, I am inclined to 

 think, represents the ruins of one of the circular, or nearly 



