ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



2. Mr. Bateman describes the top of CRONKSTONE HILL, a consider- 

 able elevation of the West Derwent ridge, as ' surrounded by a vallum 

 and rampart of earth and stone, ranging about 100 yards on every side 

 of a barrow.' The traces of these are now much less marked than they 

 seem to have been in his days. 1 



3. On the summit of GREAT FINN, or FIN Cop (xxiii. 6), in the 

 township of Taddington, at an elevation of 1,071 feet above the sea 

 level, was another of the lofty Derbyshire camps surrounding a hilltop. 

 Bateman, writing in the ' forties ' of last century, said of this site, 

 ' There are many ancient British remains which are gradually disappear- 

 ing under cultivation.' * Since that date still more of the ramparts of 

 this once large earthwork have disappeared. There seems to have been 

 a considerable enclosure following the general configuration of the 

 summit. A piece of double rampart, about 550 feet long, is extant on 

 the east side, whilst a single rampart runs round in a curve further 

 south. 



SIMPLE ENCLOSURED CAMPS 

 [CLASS C] 



1. On HARROP Moss (iii. 6), in Glossop parish, is a small pear- 

 shaped enclosure within a single rampart. The greatest length of the 

 inner area, from north to south, is 265 feet ; the greatest width is 160 feet. 

 This enclosure or camp is known as TORSIDE CASTLE. 



2. On HARTHILL MOOR (xxviii. 11), immediately to the north of 

 Moor Farm, is a small elliptical enclosure or camp known as CASTLE 



1 Bateman's Vestiges, iz?. * Bateman 's Vestigts. 



SCALEOF FtET 

 o 100 200 300 



Site 

 Tumulus ' 



HARTHILL MOOR. 

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