112 ANCIENT EAETH- WORKS. 



forming outworks. Two or three fields distant further down the 

 slope of the same hill, and near the Delabole slate quarry, is 

 Newlury Round, another earth-hedged circle, 420 feet in diameter. 

 This was probably the home of the clan, while the more strongly 

 fortified, but smaller, " Castle Goff," may have been the residence 

 of its chief. Three miles further on along the Wadebridge road 

 we reach the large circular hill-top fence of Hehhury Beacon, in 

 Michaelstow, which has an inner area of 405 by 384 feet. Within it 

 is a square raised platform 70 by 80 feet. The rampart of this ring 

 is formed of large blocks of granite and earth, and is from 10 to 

 15 feet high, with a well formed ditch outside it. Like that of 

 the last described Tregear, there is here a large extended out- 

 work to protect the only entrance. Prom Helsburj^ we pass to a 

 high ridge commanding the mouth of the Camel Eiver, and find 

 there Kelly Rounds, in Egloshayle, a double vallum structure, the 

 ground within being now an arable field. Here the outer and 

 inner ramparts are 35 feet apart, and not far from circular, the 

 area covered being 396 by 330. feet. Outworks, and a small 

 detached camp, are on its north, east, and west sides. Four 

 miles from Kelly, on the highest ground within Pencarrow Park, 

 in the same parish, and with a carriage drive passing through 

 them, are the Pencarrow Rounds, another specimen of the double- 

 ramparted village site. Oak trees now cover its high earth 

 fences. The internal area of the inner oval is 144 by 165 feet, 

 and is encircled by a high rampart and deep ditch, but the outer 

 fence and ditch are very irregular in width, varying from 60 feet 

 on the south to a few feet only on the north. The southern 

 entrance is defended by a third earth fence and ditch, and about 

 700 feet off down the south slope is a large oblong earth-hedged 

 inclosure which may possibly have been used as a cattle yard in 

 connection with this "encampment." 



To return to our Windmill Beacon, on the north-east, up the 

 Tamar Valley, the first " Rings " to come in view, are two on the 

 Devon side of the river, just opposite Bradridge Wood, and in 

 the parish of St. Griles-in-the-Heath, but they have been ploughed 

 over too frequently to make them easily definable. We come 

 next to an oval enclosure called Hilton Wood Castle, in Whitstone, 

 Cornwall. This has an inner area of 215 by 170 feet, a rampart 

 14 feet high, and a ditch 12 feet wide, in good preservation. On 



