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fences that it is not easy to decide whether there was an 

 entrance in that direction or not. 



Novv this appears to me to be a purely military work. 

 All the fortifications seem of one plan, and to have refer- 

 ence to each other. That there is no division such as I 

 have mentioned as existing in the other type, nor any 

 appearance of a cattle enclosure, which I believe will always 

 be found in connection with a British city, which, however 

 strongly fortified, was constructed for other purposes be- 

 sides those of a purely warlike character. 



I will now proceed to describe the works on Worle Hill 

 and Castle Neroche, which I have chosen as specimens of 

 the second type ; and my excuse for inflicting a description 

 of both upon the meeting is that I believe thera, though 

 both of the sanie type, to be of very different dates. 



Of the fortification on Worle Hill, Mr. Butter gives the 

 following account : "Worle Hill* is an elevated ridge, 

 about three miles long, but not more than a furlong in 

 breadth. The western end projects into the Bristol 

 Channel above the town of Weston, and is formed into 

 one of the mosfc remarkable fortifications in England." 

 The length of the space enclosed from the inner rampart 

 on the east to the point of the hill on the west is about a 

 quarter of a mile, and the medium breadth is about eighty 

 yards, making an area, as supposed, of about eighteen or 

 twenty acres. Before arriving at the outer rampart, seven 

 ditches are sunk across the ridge of the hill. There are 

 two ramparts, about fifteen feet high from the bottom of 

 the ditch, composed entirely of stones. These ramparts, 

 with their corresponding ditches, cross the hill in a part 

 where it is about 100 yards broad, and then, turning west- 



* See Plan of Worle Hill Encampment, Proceedings of Society for 1851, 

 p. 64. 



