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dition. On crossing the enclosure towards the inner bailey, 
we come to a rampart and ditch of considerable size ; and 
passing the eastern extremity of this we find, in front, 
a similar rampart a few yards further back, the western 
extremity of which rather overlaps the eastern point of the 
other, foreing the person approaching the place to pass for 
some distance between two works, commanding his path on 
either side. Following this direction, we come to the eastern 
end of the outer trench of the double rampart of the 
enclosure, through which trench the path appears to have 
led between two high banks (the most helpless position in 
which troops can find themselves), all round the south- 
western side of the fortification, as far as the modern road 
and the north-western extremity of the external rampart. 
Having penetrated thus far, those who survived the storm 
of stones and arrows, by which their number would no 
doubt have been much diminished, would find themselves 
on an open platform on the very brink of the steepest part 
of the hill, down which they might easily be forced by 
a small body of defenders posted on the height above, 
before they could reach the gate leading into the more 
strongly fortified division of the place, nearly at its north- 
western corner, 
The first point on the plan to which I wish to draw 
attention, is :—that the area, enclosed within the outer 
rampart, is divided into three separate portions; of which 
that immediately within the rampart is much the largest ; 
that within the second line of defence smaller; and the third, 
which is much more strongly fortified than either of these, 
the smallest. The beacon, owing to the natural formation 
of the hill, being in this case outside the main entrench- 
ment, is defended by an entirely independent system of 
