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place, which was apparently defended by a strong flanking 
outwork— whether a tower or no I will not venture to 
guess—the materials of which lie in a vast heap on the 
eastern side of the entrance ; there appears also to have 
been a smaller entrance at the north-eastern angle, where 
the defences are evidently erossed by a pathway. From 
the western rampart of this part of the fortification, to 
the extremity of the hill, the ramparts are perfectly evi- 
dent on the south side, while the precipitous character of 
the rocks on the north, renders fortification on that side 
unnecessary. At the north-western extremity there appears 
to have been a third entrance, defended by an outwork 
and rampart, and several smaller walls appear to have 
extended along the south side of the hill. From the great 
entrance a strong rampart extends to the east, below 
the prineipal fortification, to the distance of a few 
hundred yards, and, turning to the north, crosses the 
ridge of the hill, to the east of the trenches before men- 
tioned, dividing apparently the main fortification from the 
sort of outer enclosure formed by a similar rampart, which, 
having followed the shape of the hill for some distance, 
turns with a somewhat acute angle, and extends across the 
hill. The outer entrance to the enclosure appears to 
have been at the south-west corner, and it seems to have 
had communication both with the internal fortifications 
and the level ground to the east, by means of narrow 
gates in its ramparts. The whole of this extensive fortifi- 
cation is thus divided into four compartments, of which the 
strongest by far was that to which I have given the name 
of the keep, from the analogy it bears to that portion of a 
Norman castle. That extending from the west is also 
very strongly fortified wherever the nature of the ground 
admits, while the defences of the eastern enclosures are 
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