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iron girders and cement forming the chief constituents, the 



members dismounted and proceeded on foot over 



Breamish the steep shoulder of Hartside, on the farther 



Water. side of which a charming prospect awaited 



them. Unnoticed by the pedestrian the river 

 winds about the base of Meagrim and re-appears in the 

 sequestered vale which receives the waters of the Shank 

 Burn coursing through Alnham Moor and those of the 

 Linhope Burn whose tributaries drain the moorland below 

 Comb Fell, Hedgehope, and Dunmoor. The landscape 

 partook of a Highland character, heather and pasture com- 

 mingling and stretching to the immediate boundaries of the 

 modern Lodge, which a clump of trees partially hid 

 from view. Without descending meanwhile, the members 

 diverged to the right, and following what is still known 

 as the Hollow Eoad entered the pre-historic town of 

 Greaves Ash, which formed the main objective of the 

 excursion. Though much overgrown with grass and moss, 

 its ruins still present a formidable appearance, covering as 

 they do an area of twenty acres and consisting of three 

 distinct divisions. The Western, which is the most extensive, 

 comprises eighteen hut-circles surrounded by a double 

 rampart of huge unhewn mountain boulders, which is inter- 

 sected by cross walls for enclosing stock. The Eastern fort 

 occupies still higher ground and is connected with the 

 Western by an immense rampart. From its North-East corner 

 a road leads to the Upper fort, situated on a shoulder of 

 Greenshaw Hill, 100 yards farther to the East, and occupying 

 a naturally strong position. 



While the members sought shelter within the ruins from 

 the keen mountain air, and regaled themselves with lunch, 

 Captain Norman read an explanatory paper from which the 



following points of interest have been gleaned. 

 Greaves The Club had twice before paid a visit to this 



Ash. ancient stronghold, on June 27th 1861,^ and 



May 29th ]889;f but the former was the more 

 important meeting, inasmuch as, at the expense of the 5th Puke 



* B.N.C, Yol, iy„ Part 5, pp. 238.245. 

 t B.N.O., Vol, Wm "Part 3, pp. 43Q.453. 



