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the slope of a hill opposite Hilton Wood, in the same parish, is 

 another earth-fenced space called Froxston Castle, with an area of 

 160 by 145 feet, hut its outline is becoming year by year less 

 distinct on account of the site being used for tillage. Week St. 

 Mary, which adjoins Whitstone parish, has three village rounds, 

 one at Ashhury Boion covering a space of four acres, and having 

 a well-formed vallum and dyke, another at Swannacot with an 

 area 150 by 130 feet and a bank and ditch, and a smaller one 

 close to the church, the last two being rather obscure. In 

 Launcells, on Scorsham farm, is a peculiar earthwork called 

 East Leigliburys, consisting of three enclosures joined and 

 communicating one with another ; the middle one is the smallest, 

 and has an area of 126 by 108 feet, and each of the other two 

 is 204 by 144 feet. At the head of a coombe in the same parish, 

 on Soblacott farm, is a small ploughed down village site, 

 and in Stratton there is an oval encampment called Yerdhury^ 

 327 by 250 feet internally. From Stratton we travel on through 

 Poiighill and KiWianipton, where there are remains of no less 

 than five oval shaped single ramparted "rings," occupying 

 high points along the valley of the Strat and the old trackway 

 to Stowe Barton. In addition to these there is at the head of 

 Stowe Coombe, just below Penstowe House, an earthwork which 

 differs in construction from all others that I have seen, in that it 

 can only have been used for defence, and not as a dwelling place. 

 This remarkable earthwork caps a very steep-sided conical hill 

 overlooking a sea creek where boats could land, and probably 

 formed the fighting fort of the numerous clans who dwelt in the 

 immediate neighbourhood. It measures internally about 100 

 by 400 feet, and has semi-circular ends, one entrance and a ditch 

 outside its rampart. The space inside is filled with large rounded 

 hillocks, that rise about 30 feet above the level of the vallum. 



South-west of our Windmill Beacon, Battle Ring, on Brockle 

 Farm, in Southpetherwin, is first in the line of sight. It forms 

 a complete circle 200 feet in diameter, but the plough has here 

 again almost destroyed the outline. In Trelaske Wood, Lewannick, 

 is an eggshaped enclosure, near the Inney river, measuring 

 internally 250 by 150 feet. Within the same parish are two 

 other sites. One just above Polyphant freestone quarry on 

 Tretliinna Farm is intersected by hedges and cannot easily be 



