300 Mr. Tate 07i the Celtic Town at Greaves Ash. 



growth of ferns, many more could in the winter and spring 

 seasons be traced. 



The hut circles here vary in diameter from 8 feet to 20 feet. 

 Four of them have been cleared, and the results proved them 

 to be of the same character as those in the Western Fort. 

 One of the finest examples of a hut is here — ^, Plate 4,'B ; it 

 is a perfect circle 20 feet in diameter, the Avails are formed 

 with large blocks, and the floor is flagged from the entrance, 

 which is on the east, for the space of 7 feet towards the centre 

 of the hut, and the flagging is continued a little beyond this 

 along the sides ; the remainder is rudely paved. 



A road leads to the Upper Fort, through a well formed 

 gateway on the north-east corner. 



Upper Fort.— This Yoxt— Plate 4, C— is 100 yards 

 further to the north-east on much higher ground than the 

 other Forts, being placed on a high shoulder of Greenshaw 

 hill. A ravine on the east separates the site from similar 

 elevated groimd ; and a little beyond this, is another ravine 

 down which flows a small stream, which doubtless furnished 

 water to the ancient inhabitants of the place. The ground 

 slopes steeply from the Fort towards the Breamish on the 

 south. 



At first sight, this Fort might be classed with the camps 

 cresting the Northumberland hills, and which were more 

 places of temporary refuge than of permanent occupation ; 

 there are here rampiers of earth and stone like those around 

 the hill fortlets ; but the internal arrangements are more 

 complicated, for the area within is completely filled with 

 the remains of hut-circles, oval enclosures, trackways, and 

 dividing walls. Here too Ave haA^e boAvl-shaped enclo- 

 sures, Avhich have been deeply holloAved, and the earth and 

 stones excavated used to build high rampiers. The floor of 

 one of these enclosures — k, Plate 4 — is even noAV 8 feet be- 

 low the top of the rampier. 



The form of this Fort is irregular and somcAvhat accommo- 

 dated to the nature of the ground ; but all the corners are 

 rounded. Its greatest length is 220 feet from north to south ; 

 and its breadth from east to Avest is 200 feet ; but from the 

 hill rising steeply on the northern part, it is narrower there ; 

 the area of the whole does not much exceed three-fourths of 

 an acre. A strong rampier crossing it in an E. N. E. direc- 

 tion, divides it into tAvo parts. 



There are several entrances ; the principal one, the sides of 



