28 MOUNTAINS. 



Ingleborough was a great hill-fort of the Britons, defended by 

 a wall constructed like others known in Wales, and furnished 

 with houses like the ' Cyttiau ' of Gwynedd. It is but a slight 

 objection to this view that the enclosure contains no spring; the 

 same defect is observed on the Herefordshire Beacon, and in many 

 other cases : there is indeed a very small spring on the west side 

 about fifty feet below the summit, and what seems like a covered 

 way leading down to it. 



The area enclosed by the walls of the Camp on Ingleborough 

 is ascertained from Mr. Farcer's Plans to be 15 acres 1 rood 

 37 perches. The figure is irregular, and parallel in a general 

 sense to the outline of the precipitous gritstone brow of the hill, 

 so that between the wall and this brow there are generally a few 

 yards of clear ground. If we disregard the small irregularities, 

 the figure may be described as quadrilateral ; the face presented 

 to the north-north-east is something less than 400 yards long, 

 that opposite to it about 250 yards ; the face which looks to the 

 south-east is about 270 yards, and that which fronts the west 

 about 220. There are three openings through the wall ; one at 

 the south-west corner seems to be connected with a covered way 

 down the steep brow; another in the middle of the east face 

 admits the present, which was probably also an ancient track ; a 

 third, on the northern face, leads to a tremendous precipice. 

 Each of the two last-named openings is 50 feet wide. The wall 

 is remarkably low for about 30 yards at the north-east corner, 

 and there the hill runs out into a sort of natural bastion. 



The wall is constructed after a regular plan, which seems to 

 be substantially that of the large cairns which have been opened 

 on the north-eastern moorlands, as, for example, Obtrush Roque 

 near Kirkby Moorside. There is along the inner side a series 

 of broad, thin gritstones set upright, edge to edge, so as to make 

 a thin vertical face wall or limit. From these at right angles 

 proceed outward many other such rows of broad stones, also set on 

 edge, forming ' throughs/ at intervals of 6 feet; the intervening 

 spaces being filled in with a dry built wall. There is no outer face 



