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wide and some 12 feet deep, with a causeway 30 feet broad across it, 

 which connects the enclosure with a flat elevated area, covering about 

 24 acres, lying beyond it ; this area has, he goes on to say, sloping sides 

 showing signs of cut terraces, which are probably the weather-worn 

 remains of former ramparts. He mentions that he was informed by a 

 native that there were some cut stones remaining in a corner of the 

 interior area, thirty years previous to his visit, which appeared to have 

 formed part of an underground chamber. This camp is somewhat similar 

 in appearance to the one at Beausale, 4! miles away. 1 



On Yarningale Common, an elevated promontory about a mile 

 north-east of Barmoor Wood, Mr. Burgess discovered a low double 

 mound surrounded by a fosse, situated on the north-west shoulder of the 

 hill ; the base of the larger mound he described as about 70 feet in 

 diameter, and the ' inner central one not more than 9 feet.' The fosse 

 he measured as 1 1 feet wide. 2 



CORLEY (6 miles south-west of Nuneaton.) There are remains of 

 a considerable fortress in this parish, on the hill called, in consequence, 

 the Burrow Hill. They are situated upon a sloping plateau on the top 

 of the hill, facing north-east, and at an altitude of some 500 feet above 

 the level of the sea, and from which there is a magnificent prospect on 

 every side. 



The shape of the camp is an irregular square, containing an area of 

 about 10 acres; it is defended partly by natural rocky precipices, and 

 partly by artificial earthworks. The latter are now much weather-worn, 

 and also altered by cultivation ; they consist mainly of a rampart, vary- 

 ing from 10 to barely 3 feet in height, and about 30 feet wide at its base; 

 no accompanying fosse is now visible, except on the side near the valley ; 

 there is also a long ditch on the south-west separate from the main works. 

 In the interior is a pit, fed by a spring, which would afford a good water 

 supply. There appears to have been but one ancient entrance, that on 

 the north-west side by the rocks ; the opening at the north-east angle 

 has evidently been cut in later days to form a road from the field within 

 the area to the farmhouse below. 



Mr. Ribton-Turner, who was the first to report upon these remains 

 in detail, describes further traces of ancient works, as follows : * Two 

 escarpments with terraces and trenches,' the former ' from 40 to 60 feet 

 in height, on the curved front of the steep declivity overlooking the 

 valley, and extending some ten chains or more on each side of the main 

 works ' ; he also says that ' there are indications of other smaller fortifi- 

 cations in the fields on this side of the hill, running nearly parallel with 

 the rock, but time and the plough have left few traces of the original 

 features.' s 



Burgess in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Trans. (1872), p. 86, in Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. 

 (1873), p. 41, and m Arch. Journ. xxxiii. (1876), pp. 369-70 ; Timmins's Warw. pp. 6c-6 ; Turner's 

 Shaks. Land, p. 195. 



Burgess in Arch. Journ. vol. xxxiii. (1876), p. 370, and in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Tram. 

 (1872), p. 86. 



' Turner's Shaks. Land, p. 252. 



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