rtftcaC 

 tott of i 



caCc6 



By H. COLLEY MARCH and HL S. SOLLY. 



T7GGARDUN is the name of a well-known hill-fortress 

 in Dorset. Its altitude is 800 feet above sea 

 level. It occupies the basal, or widest, part 

 of a promontory of greensand rock capped 

 with chalk, which can be seen, on the upper 

 slopes, underlying the green turf. Within its 

 enclosure are two barrows and many rounded 

 hollows, commonly called " pit dwellings." 



The following extract from Hutchins' 

 account of this place is of interest, as he 

 wrote before 1774. The irregularity of the walls that he noticed 

 on the south side is due to slip : 



" Dimension, E.-W., 1380 feet [or 460 yards], and in breadth 

 720 feet [or 240 yards]. Two ditches and two ramparts on N. 

 and E. about 30 feet asunder. On the W. three ramparts and 

 two ditches, very regular. But on South, irregular. 



On the N. side there goes a road at the tot lorn of one of the 

 ditches, which leads from Powerstock to Maiden Newton, and 



