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VIIL.—Larthwork in Northcot Hamlet, Devon. 
AG the Meeting of this Institution in the Spring of 1870, notes 
were read and a sketch plan exhibited, from Mr. Coode, of 
Polapit Tamar, Launceston, concerning an ancient earthwork in 
Northcot Wood, on the east bank of the Tamar, in Northcot 
Hamlet, Devon; of which, we believe, no mention is to be found 
in any History ae Devon, or other published work. 
We publish, annexed, a lithograph copy of the plan erarieinacl 
by Mr. Coode, concerning which he states that the river and 
boundaries are taken fom a plan and are accurate, but the red 
lines representing the foss and sunken road are put in from ocular 
observation only. The ground slopes precipitately down to the 
Tamar, and steeply to the little rivulet at A.B. which falls into 
the Tamar. There is no present appearance of either ferry or 
ford, though the sunken road seems to lead to the river, which, 
however, is not easily fordable at that point, unless in dry summer 
weather. The ground towards C rises rather higher than the earth- 
work. The red lines represent the now remaining portions of the 
ancient works ; and the outside embankment is quite as apparent 
and unmistakeable, as far as it goes, as the inner oval. The ditch 
varies in depth from five or six feet to nine or ten. Whether the 
outside embankment ever extended all the way round, Mr. Coode ~ 
could not say; but it was the opinion of persons who viewed it 
with him, that the road next the bend in the Tamar runs along 
the old ditch. The ground is very steep there, and also on the 
south-eastern side. The whole is covered with oak coppice, and 
when that grows up, is of course quite invisible except to persons 
actually in the ditch. 
