EGGARDON HILL: ITS CAMP AND ITS GEOLOGY. ,75 



Castle being the largest. We also know that it was the same 

 race who constructed and inhabited the Lake Dwellings at 

 Glastonbury. I believe I am right in saying that no scientific 

 examination has ever been made of Eggardon Camp; but in 

 Vol. XVIII. of the Proceedings of the Field Club, p. xliii., will 

 be found some account of the Glastonbury Village by Professor 

 Boyd Dawkins, and in Vol. XIX., p. Ixxx. sqq., will be found the 

 same gentleman's account of the camp at Hod Hill. We may 

 apply the information there given to this camp on Eggardon. 



The Iberians survived into the pre-historic Iron Age, and 

 were then very far from being mere barbarians. They 'were 

 agriculturists, and practised the arts of spinning, weaving, and 

 making pottery. They had saws, axes, hoes, and other tools 

 made of iron. They had flocks and herds of sheep and cattle, 

 and kept pigs, horses, dogs, and, probably, goats. We must not 

 imagine that they always lived in these camps. But they were 

 perpetually fighting ; fighting with each other and with different 

 races with whom they came in contact ; fighting, Professor 

 Dawkins says, as the Scottish Highlanders used to fight, clan 

 against clan, until the country was finally pacified in comparatively 

 recent times. They needed these large camps of refuge for their 

 wives and children and their live stock to save them from 

 annihilation during the merciless forays that were of frequent 

 occurrence. I would venture to suggest that the "Lynches," 

 or " Terraces of Cultivation," of which we have interesting 

 specimens near Bridport, were executed by the same race at this 

 same period, when every little district had to support itself 

 without exchange with any outside area, when there were no 

 roads and no trade, and there was a state of almost constant 

 warfare.* How ably this people used the spade in constructing 

 fortifications, especially how well they guarded the entrances to 

 their camp, may be noticed on Eggardon. There are various 



* I do not doubt that some of these ten-aces are originally due to "differential 

 hardness" in successive beds of Midford Sand, or that others were made by 

 ploughing; but it is difficult to believe that these two causes account for all 

 that we see. 



