ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



posed continually decomposing under atmospheric action, and falling at 

 times in considerable quantities into the valleys beneath. The enclosure 

 is of an irregular tongue-like shape, and the ramparts have for ages 

 been slowly disappearing on both sides of the base of the tongue which 

 forms the southern end, particularly at the south-east angle. In one 

 respect this earthwork differs in a striking manner from the enclosure on 

 the top of Comb Moss, with which in most respects it is parallel. The 



SCALE OF FEET 



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GREAT FINN OR FIN COP. (See page 371.) 



summit of Mam Tor is not flattened, and the ramparts are carried round 

 the hill, which rises within the enclosure in a hog-back ridge. 



The small break in the ramparts at the northern tip of the tongue 

 is not supposed to be original ; and another on the north-west has been 

 caused by the constant flow of water from a spring within the enclosure. 

 The chief and probably the only original entrance is at the south, where 

 there are remains of a third bank, making a triple rampart. An old 

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