370 BunJde Edge Forts. By Francis Lynn. 



difficult, and, in the confusion of branches, many minor 

 details may have been overlooked. A glance at the plan 

 given will show that the work divides into two central 

 sections, the eastward of which seems to have been the 

 principal. The row of circles, running along one side of 

 this central enclosure, is interesting. The central circle of 

 the two shown, through which section K. L. is drawn, is 

 rather too large to have been roofed in as a hut-circle. The 

 other two are about the usual size of dwellings. But 

 between the southmost of these circles and the front of the 

 mound rising from K., there occurs a great mass of stone 

 debris. Also on the east angle of this, the inner mound 

 of the Fort, which I have marked on the plan with a P., 

 there occurs a similar mass, which it might be well to have 

 examined. 



The general plan of this Fort is a large oval, 260 feet 

 by 380 feet between the inner walls. A second mound of 

 considerable strength encircles it most of the way. At the 

 west side, however, this outer mound dies out, and on the 

 ground there are no indications that it was ever continued. 

 Indeed the outer mound, coming round the northern bound- 

 ary, turns down and rests on the inner wall by the side of 

 what seems to have been an entrance. On the south-east 

 side, under the parts where I have remarked on the presence 

 of large masses of stone, the second mound is also awanting ; 

 but its material has evidently been taken to form the curious 

 enclosure walls which run out towards the south-east. The 

 mounds of these enclosures have no appearance of ditch on 

 either side, so we may conclude that the material forming 

 them was carried from the second wall and deposited to 

 form them. It is quite likely also that the material of the 

 outer mound, already remarked on as wanting on the west 

 side, may have been carried round and used to form the 

 straight mound on the north, which runs in an easterly 

 direction for a considerable distance, then turns and forms 

 a connection with the enclosures already referred to. The 

 whole of these enclosures, outside on the south-east, have 

 evidently been formed at a late date in the history of the 

 Fort, and indications on the plan go to show that the long 

 straight mound on the north was added after all the others. 

 My idea is that these interferences with the second mound, 



