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In length from the base near the village of Worle to Anchor 
Head it is not far short of three miles. About a mile from the 
east end it is accessible from the seaward by the very ancient 
ascent of St. Kew’s Steps leading from the village of Kewstoke 
to the crown of the hill. On the right side, not far from the top, 
there is an oblong enclosure walled with dry masonry in which 
Mr. Warre found a strange assemblage of relics ranging from 
early British to late medieval dates, and even later. 
Walking westward from this ascent we soon enter the wood of 
fir and larch which covers all the rest of the hill, and which I 
remember as very young plants forty-two years ago, We pass a 
cairn or heap of stones on the right of the road, called by the 
quarrymen and others Pickwinner, which stands, I think, on the 
highest point of the hill, It is about a quarter of a mile from the 
east end of the ramparts, but is nearly taken away (A.D. 1876). 
Passing on westwards we come to the trench which bounds the 
outer enclosure, probably intended for the protection of cattle, 
and which may very likely have been fenced by a stockade within 
the ditch. 
This line of enclosure runs along the south side of the hill as 
far as the main defences and is carried at both ends across the 
ridge to the northward as far as the low cliffs above the beach of 
loose rounded stones skirting the south side of Sand Bay. 
Just within this trench on the east side of the enclosure are 
two hut-circles, and from the south-west angle an ancient way 
leads downwards along the south slope of the hill in a westward 
direction to the spot where the limekiln stands (or stood in 1852). 
After passing the western or inner trench of the cattle-enclosure 
(as we may call it) we come to a stony piece of ground cut across 
from north to south by several trenches close together, intended 
doubtless to render impossible the advance of cavalry or chariots ; 
the innermost of these takes a bold sweep in a curved line 
. towards the N.W. and S.W., forming the outline of the great. 
defences, and from it rises a rampart of great height and mass, 
arr a on 
