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addition is as base in its masonry as the Roman portion is 

 excellent. There can be little doubt that this was maile use of 

 as the watch tower. Still following the circuit nf the walls by 

 the high road, passing another tower, and making a sudden cune 

 to the south-east, we arrive at a tower which must have been 

 much dilapidated at an early period, and has undergone 

 extensive repairs, very neatly carried out. A few yards more 

 bring us to a postern-gate, communicating with a foot-path 

 crossing the inner area and with the High Street of the town of 

 Peven.sey. Just southward of this is another tower, at one 

 hundred and twenty feet from which the Eoman work forms a 

 junction with the mediajval castle. This may be properly called 

 raediffival in preference to Norman, because, although there is no 

 doubt of a Norman fortress having existed upon the spot, 

 a considerable portion of the existing remains point to a date 

 long subsequent to what is recognist-d as the Norman period, 

 probably to the days of the earlier Edwards. This mediteval 

 work is curiously engrafted upon the Roman. There are five 

 towers of the subsequent era, two in ruins, Hanking the gieat 

 gatewaj', which looks nearly due west towards the principal 

 entrance of the Roman Avork, from which it is distant three 

 hundred and fifty feet. The towers are constructed of what is 

 locally called E'bourne stone, and they ha\e immense loop-holes. 

 The north-western tower is supposed to have been the residence 

 of tiie governor. This Norman and post-Nonnan work forms an 

 independent castle complete in all its parts, with the enceinte, 

 moat, and other usual accessories of a castle of the middle ages, 

 albeit upon a small scale. The remains of its keep are still 

 recognisable on the eastern side of the enclosure. The interval 

 going west between the mediaeval castle and the Roman gateway, 

 at which our survey commehced, is precipitous ground, faces the 

 sea (at a distance of about a mile), and retains upon the surface 

 few traces of ancient masonry of any kind. Whoever but for one 

 moment contemplates this structure, with its solid towers and walls 

 ten or twelve feet thick (presenting much the same appearance 



