THE FOGOTT AT HAXLIQEY, TEELOWARKEN. 257 



Reference E.F.G. Narrow passage, two feet four inches 

 wide, about two feet high and fourteen long, opening into what 

 must have been the vallum of the enclosure above, at H, where 

 its portal is ten feet below the surface of the adjoining field. 



The ditch has been long since filled up, but this entrance was 

 found by sinking a shaft over its site and it was discovered to 

 be exactly below the face of the embankment N. Hence we 

 may conjecture that it was a concealed passage or sally-port 

 opening into the ditch and that the embankment itself is the 

 ruin of a wall, the foundations of which were at least ten feet 

 below the present surface. 



The space marked M, is an enclosed parallelogram. Its whole 

 area is raised four or five feet above the ground around it, and 

 its enclosing hedge or bank is nearly three feet high within, at 

 this point, and from seven to eight feet above the surface of the 

 field without. This gives a height of seventeen or eighteen 

 feet from its present crest to the supposed level of its ditch. 



The portal between the passage [F.E,] and the main gallery 

 is two feet high by eighteen inches wide. It is composed of 

 three hewn stones. 



Midway in the passage is a similar doorway [G-] and on each 

 side, withinf this middle portal are two holes obviously intended 

 as sockets for the ends of a bar which was to confine the door 

 (probably a stone or a piece of iron) when the passage was 

 closed. 



This passage, however, does not appear to have been the only 

 entrance into the subterranean. At the other end [I] of the 

 main gallery there must have been a communication between it 

 and the enclosure above. 



When the cave was first discovered there was no end wall 

 there, but the gallery seemed to terminate abruptly, and its end 

 consisted of the same moved earth as that which constitutes 

 the garden soil of the enclosure itself. 



At the other end of the semicircular gallery there is a ledge 

 of rock in the floor, at K, about a foot high and as much wide ; 



f Any person who barred this from within must, of course, have been imprison- 

 ed in the Fogou, if no other way out existed. W.I. 



