THE NEIGHBOTTRHOOD OF BROWN "WTLLT. 



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suggest such an idea. This rampart, which is a rude 

 measures internally about 240 feet in circumference. As 

 rectangular enclosure A, it is built of 

 comparatively small stones, and about 

 42 feet by 24 feet in measurement 

 inside. Between this and the rampart 

 on the S. side is a smaller enclosure B, 

 the contiguous walls of A and B being 

 so close together as to leave only a 

 very narrow passage between. Attach- 

 ed to the exterior of the N. wall of the ram- 

 part there is an appendage C, which may 

 have been the main entrance. 



circle, 

 to the 



Eeturning to these hills : on the further 

 side of Rough Tor (i.e. from Fernacre), on 

 the borders of a bog peculiarly desolate, 

 even for these moors, a monument erected by 

 public subscription marks the place where 

 in 1 844 Charlotte Dymond, a young woman 

 in service at Penheal (Davidstow), was 

 murdered on a Sunday in April, by her fellow 

 servant Matthew Weekes. There were 

 circumstances especially horrible about the 

 case : the girl set off to visit friends across 

 the moor, and was followed by Weekes, who 

 decoyed her off from the trackway, and 

 having cut her throat by the side of the 

 stream, threw her body into the water, where 

 the banks were high. Having relieved his 

 mind by murdering his sweetheart, he 

 returned to Penheal and proceeded to go on 

 with his work. A week later, nothing 

 having been heard of C. D., her mastei /' 



organised a search-party, when Weekes 

 tookthe opportunity to steal away, halt- / ^ ^ 



ing very leisurely at Altarnon ; he was. ^* 



eventually caught and hanged. Nine ^ 



days after the murder, three men on the search, followed certain 



