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areas to have been. All t\\e walls that furrounded thefe worbs 

 are demolifhed and 'nmbled over into the lower area, where they 

 lie fcattered in large frag-nients ; but they have left in fome fpots 

 vifible traces of their foundations, and alfo of the foundations of 

 fome partition walls on the upper fort, and of fome fquare build- 

 ings on the next lower area near the great gate, as is marked on 

 • the plan. The only (tone work that has efcaped the ravages of 

 war and time are the two piers of the draw-bridge and lower 

 gate, now vulgarly called the Horfdcap; thefe were not only 

 piers of the draw-bridge into the fort, but ferved alfo as fides to 

 a gateway which fliut up the lowefl area or deep fofle of the fort, 

 wherein I conceive that in time of danger they kept tlielr cattle 

 and fuel, and every other flore which required room. This 

 hollow place is very deep and well Iheltered ; and, notwithfland- 

 ing two rivulets ran along two fides of the fort, a well was dug 

 in it at B, to fupply the garrifon and their cattle with water 

 during a blockade, and which I fuppofe was deep enough to 

 draw water thereto from the river by a fubterraneous drain. I 

 have no doubt that there were other works both of earth and 

 ftone belonging to this fort, which are now fo decayed and defaced 

 as not to be difllndly obferved. 



There was a wall of lime and (lone on the fummit or fpine 

 of the hill or ridge, the foundation of which can be traced all 

 the way from the fort to the road at A, where, in the ditches 

 on each fide of it, the lime and ftone are ftill vifible. The ufe 

 of this wall I cannot conceive, except it was carried quite 

 round the hill upon which the church ftands, to circumfcribe a 



town, 



