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the use of the herdsmen in charge of the animals within the 

 pound. 



(8) Hut-cluster is the name given to the remains of 

 irregularly-grouped contiguous dwellings. This antiquity 

 in the West of England is bj'- no means common. One only 

 is at present known on Dartmoor ; but doubtless others will 

 yet be discovered. 



(9) Forts and Entrenched Camps abound in this dis- 

 trict. Stokeleigh Camp and Burgh Walls are close to us 

 on the other side of the river. The former of these is in 

 good preservation, but the latter has been nearly destroyed 

 by building and gardening operations within the last few 

 years. The camp on Observatory Hill has been often de- 

 scribed, so nothing more will here be said of it. 



(10) Trackline, and Boundary-bank, are terms not 

 strictly interchangeable. The former means a line of stones 

 of moderate size fixed in the ground, and distant from each 

 other several feet. The latter term is applied to low banks 

 of earth and stones which extend in curved, sinuous, or 

 nearly straight directions, often for long distances. The 

 two are here classed together, because they often merge into 

 one another, and appear to have been intended for the same 

 purposes. In some cases they seem to have been meant as 

 guides in the neighbourhood of settlements during thick 

 misty weather, and by night; but more often they enclose 

 irregularly rectangular oblong spaces of ground around 

 groups of hut-remains. In such cases they may simply be 

 the result of clearing the ground of loose stones from the 

 surface or just below it, for the sake of tillage, or for im- 

 proving the pasture. 



(11) Trackways or Roads were of the greatest import- 

 ance in ancient as in modern times ; and their value seems 

 to have been recognised at a very early date, certainly before 



