“424 Conjettures on the Uje of 
ble, in fome places, the Danith field-works, but 
their great extent, and pofition with refpe& to 
the fea and low country, for they chiefly point 
to the Eaft and South, render it improbable 
that they are of Danifh origin. I was once 
inclined to think, that they were conftructed to 
oppofe the progrefs of that people, becaufe con- 
fiderable terraces are vifible, on the floping emi- 
nences of fome fields, near Bambrough Caftle, 
in Northumberland, which, among a great 
variety of entrenchments, contain forme beauti- 
ful femi-circular Redoubts, with triple ram- 
parts.* But in a fhort ramble to the Lakes, i 
Spring, 1791, the view of Orton Scarr, my 
tween Kenpat and Appresy, and of the neigh- 
‘pouring country, induced me to believe, that if 
this kind of defence were employed againft the 
Danes, it had been, however, of earlier origin. 
Orton 
' * Thefe fields deferve particular inveftigation. They 
are fituated near the village of North Charleton, but dis- 
tinguifhed neither by hiftory nor tradition, They contain 
works of very different magnitude and conftruétion, which 
in the whole, appear to be capable of lodging 42,000 
men. In conjunétion with a feries of pofts on the neigh- 
bouring eminences, they indicate a powerful invafion, and 
perhaps a fucceffion of engagements in the plain, Who- 
‘ever would examine them, (and they would amply repay 
attention) fhould begin with the circular Camp on the 
perpendicular rock of Spindlefton, behind which the inva- 
ders feem to have landed, and proceed — the chain 
of rifing grounds to the fields, 
