74 l'APEUS, ETC. 



Hambdon Hill,* while the line of the Axe is protected by 

 the forts of Musberry and Membury. 



All these are of the second type, the only one of which 

 there can be any doubt being that at Norton, which 

 at first sight rnight be supposed to belong to the first, but, 

 on closer Observation, some vestiges of external enclosures 

 may, I think, be foimd, thongh almost obliterated by culti- 

 vation. 



Now it seems probable that these forts were constructed 

 by the Dumnonii as a protection from the inroads of the 

 Belga; ; and it seems to me that it is not impossible that 

 the second type may be the normal one of the aboriginal 

 Loegri ; while the first, instanccs of which abound on the 

 chalk hüls and downs of the Belgic territory, and of which 

 the earthwork on St. Catherine's Hill, near Winchester, 

 Venta Belgarum, Sorbiodunum, and Cadbnry, are very 

 remarkable examples, may be that introduced by the men 

 of Gal Edin. Nor does the fact that some very fine ex- 

 amples of the second type, such as Worle Hill, Dolbury, 

 Combe Down, and Orchard Castle, are to be found Avithin 

 the Belgic territory, at all militate against this opinion, as 

 that territory was in the hands of the Loegri for centuries 

 before the men of Gal Edin were driven from the Tyr-ny- 

 pol by the irruption of the sea. 



Sir Richard Hoare, speaking of Orchard Castle, says 

 that it is cpiite unlike the camps on the chalk downs, and 

 similar to those he had seen in Wales. Now Orchard 

 Castle is Castle Neroche in miniature ; while the very 

 great antiquity of that on Worle Hill is shewn by the 

 extreme rudeness of some of the pottery found there, which 

 is different from any I have ever seen, but which, I am 



* See Plan of Hambdon Hill, Proceedings for 1853, p. 8 t. 



