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length, bordered on each side by decayed earthen ramparts. 

 The camp or fort itself — a sort of pentagon or square with 

 rounded angles — has strong and thick walls, of accumulated 

 earth and stones ; and is still almost entire. The walls may be 

 about 6 feet high or more ; there being two on the west and 

 three on the north. There is still a fourth, more remote, on the 

 north, which includes a wide space, containing numerous sheep 

 or cattle folds, and also many large hut circles, set against the 

 back of the third wall. The entrance crosses the walls obliquely, 

 and is protected by an inner guard-house. There are a few hut- 

 circles and other structures in the interior area of the camp ; 

 which has not so much been intended for habitation, as to secure 

 the grazing animals of the community, in circumstances of alarm. 

 The long avenue would be useful in keeping them in a body, 

 when driven to it for shelter. There is not much alteration in 

 the camp by later occupants ; some cross-walling between the 

 circles may be attributed to shepherds of an age scarce gone by. 



This camp, although hidden in a gap, between hill-tops, com- 

 mands a far prospect, and is an imposing object, ring rising above 

 ring, when looked back upon. It stands in a line with the great 

 camp at the Kettles near Wooler (which, when entire, was a close 

 representation of that on Yeavering) ; that on the summit of 

 Humbleton hill ; and the extensive walled area surmounting 

 Yeavering Bell ; and the design of all appears to have been alike. 

 There is another large camp, on the east side of Standrop, over- 

 looking Akeld fields. 



From Harehope, the remainder of our journey can now be 

 pointed out, the peak of Yeavering appearing, as it often does 

 from the high ground behind it, like a great walled green field, 

 through an opening behind Akeld hill and Whitelaw, all the bulk- 

 ier proportions of the hill, as well as the broad intervening ridges 

 and spacious depressions, being levelled over at this deceptive 

 altitude of view. Looking back on Humbleheugh, and forward 

 to the Bell, the walls encircling the summits of the two hills 

 manifestly correspond ; and it may be inferred, that Yeavering 

 in this respect, is not singular from its compeer ; and that there 

 is no reason to believe, that the one was a Druid sacrificial 

 station, any more than the other. This was part of the teaching 

 of our journey through the hills. 



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