38 PAPERS, ETC. 
Anient Gorth-wark at Karten 
Fit;-warten, 
BY THE REV. F. WARRE. 
HE summit of the hill on the north of the parish 
church of Norton Fitz-Warren, situated about 
two miles and a half north-west of the town of 
Taunton, is occupied by a very curious and remark- 
able earth-work; which, strange to say, seems to 
have escaped the notice both of Collinson and Phelps: 
nor have I met with any mention of it, except in a 
paper upon the Roman remains discovered at the 
neighbouring farm of Conquest, in the year 1666, 
by an anonymous writer (who certainly appears, from 
the mistakes he has made, not to have been well 
acquainted with the country), which is to be 
found among the miscellaneous tracts appended to 
Hearne’s chronicle of Robert of Gloucester and 
Peter Langtoft, published in four volumes at Oxford 
in the year 1724. This omission is the more extra- 
ordinary, as the earth-work is situated in the midst 
of ancient enclosures, in a part of the country where 
the plough has long ago destroyed every other 
vestige of similar works; indeed it is probable that 
this has only escaped, from the fact of thearea con- 
