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four trenches, and between each of them an earthen wall. 

 On the very top of the hill is an area of twenty acres, (it 

 is really much larger,) where in several places, as Leland 

 observes, may be seen the foundations of walls, and there 

 was much dusky blue stone, which the people of the ad- 

 joining village had carried avvay." At the present time the 

 high walls, and almost all the foundations of walls, have 

 disappeared, as well as all traces of the internal arrange- 

 ment of the place ; but the outer fortifications are suffi- 

 ciently well preserved to enable us to make out their plan 

 satisfactorily. Whatever outworks may have existed have 

 been obliterated by cultivation, with the exception of 

 some platforms on the south side ; but there are the vast 

 trenches with their earthen walls, on some of which the 

 remains of a work of dry masonry may still be observed. 

 Three entrances may also be clearly made out ; that on the 

 east side has been so much altered for the convenience of 

 the occupants of the area within the works as to have 

 entirely lost its ancient character ; but it seems probable 

 that there was an original entrance at this point. The next 

 is at the south-east angle of the place, and having crossed 

 the outer defences, opens into the moat between the inner 

 agger and the one next to it, the path over the inner agger 

 being steep and narrow, and probably at one time being 

 strongly fortified. This opening of the approach into the 

 trench is not uncommon in British works. At the south- 

 west angle is the main entrance, which leads through all 

 the intrenchments up to the area of the fort, commanded 

 by flanking works, and probably by platforms for slingers ; 

 and at the highest point of the ground within the works 

 there are still vestiges of what may have been the founda- 

 tions of an interior fortification. On the north side the 

 ancient works have been so much disturbed by modern 



