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westward line of defence was originally carried on to the sea 
boundary about Anchor Head, and there were evidently works 
along the steep north side of the hill which are now utterly ruined. 
I must not omit to mention that on the slopes without and be- 
low the ramparts there might be traced clusters of remarkable 
angular indentations which in the opinion of the late Mr. E. 
Martin Atkins (to whom we are indebted for the valuable plan 
published in the Proceedings of the Som. Arch. and Nat. 
Hist. Society) were probably standing places for  slingers, 
who might greatly annoy an approaching enemy long before they 
were enabled to make use of any means of defence. 
If we now, leaving the lines which protect this formidable 
fastness, traverse the ground enclosed by them, said to be about 
9? acres in extent, we perceive it to contain a very considerable 
number of pits of irregular shape and various sizes, but on the 
average about 5 or 6 feet across and of about the same depth. 
These have been wrought out with great toil as the natural 
splits and rifts of the limestone rock might permit, and we may 
notice here and there an unsuccessful attempt where the rock 
has-been too solid to allow more than a shallow excavation. 
These pits are most thickly clustered towards the east or best 
protected end of the camp, and especially in a direction north 
and west from the great south entrance, and towards the north 
they are disposed in regular parallel rows. 
They have all been opened and their contents removed. This 
was the work of three or four years from 1851, and was done 
under the inspection of the Rev. Francis Warre, who published 
his memoir of the results in the Proceedings of the Somerset 
Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc. 
These excavations were the underground part of those rude 
hut-dwellings in which the primeval population of this district 
found shelter when the storm of war drove them to their strong- 
hold ; and in these we have with our own eyes looked upon their 
scanty stores of grain and bones of animals used for food, their 
