14 ENCLOSURES AT SMALLACOMBE. 



tempt at courses. This walling has much the appearance of that 

 of some of the early chapels in Cornwall. The building also runs 

 east and west ; which arrangement, however, may be merely the 

 result of accident. Eastward of, and adjoining this chamber is a 

 cell (D), about 6 feet wide and 9 feet long. Two others (E, f), of 

 the same length, but each only 3 feet in breadth, are joined on to 

 the Avestern end. Northward of the eastern cell, and in continu- 

 ation of its east side, a wall is carried along for the length of 33 

 feet on the old rampart, and terminates (at g) in another rectan- 

 gular chamber (H), 24 feet by 6 feet. Some parts of the walls of 

 this, with the rectangular chamber and its cells described above, 

 constitute all the more recent work. 



Eeturning to the west of the entrance (a), from which point 

 the ground rises considerably, there is a small cell ( I ) between walls 

 of immense breadth ; above which an area (k) runs from north 

 to south 22 yards, from east to west 10 yards. This opens hito 

 another (l) extending from east to west 30 yards, from north to 

 south 15 yards. Both these enclosures are bounded on the west 

 by a wall from 10 feet to 12 feet thick, and of which internally 

 only the basement stones, rough blocks set on end, remain. 

 Opening into the first of these areas, on the south side, is a gate- 

 way (m), 7 feet wide. To the east of this the wall is continued 

 for about 8 yards ; then, turning northernly, it has a projecting 

 cell (N), 6 feet by 3 feet, as if to form a guardroom to the en- 

 trance (a) first described. 



Outside the great western rampart there appears to have been 

 a narrow pass (o) into the second area (l), and this was covered 

 by another rampart, or kmd of outwork (P), of a curved form, 

 and of the extraordinary breadth of 15 feet, carried on northward 

 to protect also the western end of an enclosure (q), measuring 12 

 yards from north to south, 20 yards from east to west, of an ir- 

 regular form ; its south wall being a tolerably straight line, the 

 north side curving outwardly. The walling of this enclosure is 



