136 RAMBLE OVER DERBYSHIRE HILLS AND DALES, 
of the rock-strewn moor was very heavy. We succeeded in _ 
obtaining a small photograph of the wall, and then by planting 
the camera on the top of it, where it is level with the earth above, 
a general view of the whole area. The overhanging rock men- 
tioned by Dr. Hall has a basin on the top which contained about 
two gallons of rainwater on our visit. There are some fine rocking 
stones amidst the vast assemblage—one on the south could be 
easily moved, the large one in the centre also vibrated under our 
pressure ; it is above seven feet high, and twelve or fourteen feet 
in diameter.* The scene on the north side of Caelswark is one of 
dreadful confusion, immense masses of sandstone lying on the 
steep descent in thousands ; while from this eminence the pro- 
spect beyond and all around is grand and overpowering. A lurid 
light illumined the dusky moors, which stretched away to the 
far horizon, and the solitude is almost unbroken ; save a keeper’s 
lone house on the other side of the Burbage Brook, which springs 
from the mosses of this moor, and another (Morten’s) which cuts 
against the sky on the north-west, there is no sign of human life 
on the broad and ocean-like expanse. About half-a-mile away, 
the immense stones of Higgar, with the Slifter Tor on the extreme 
left of the pile, tower in majesty against the northern sky ; towards 
this eminence we now pushed our way, and stiff work it was. We 
reached the pile near its centre where the great cromlech-like 
stones, sO prominent in its distant outline, stand. By the very 
faint light now left to us, Mr. Warwick tried to take a view of this 
curious assemblage of rocks on the north side, while I made a 
sketch of their more imposing but darker front from the south, 
from which the accompanying cut is taken. It was above half- 
past seven o’clock and getting dusk, but we examined the Slifter 
Tor, which is separated by fearful chasms from the main pile, and 
found a trap for weasels on the top. 
* The Rev. J. C. Cox, in his able paper on the Archeological Needs of the 
County, speaking of Cael’s-wark, says, ‘‘ Within the last fifteen years some of 
the most Cyclopean part of the work has been dislodged and worked up into 
millstones. Surely ov Society might have this ancient fort carefully surveyed, 
which has never yet been done, and then perhaps move Sir John Lubbock to 
Pe its being scheduled in the next Session.”—Derby Mercury, Jan. 23, 
1854. 
