A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



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12 and 1 6). — Bolt Tail, a headland jutting out on the west side 

 of the county, is fortified in two places — the westerly pro- 

 montory and the cliff facing 

 northwards into Bigbury Bay". 

 The first is an entrenchment 

 900 ft. long across the narrow- 

 est part of the promontory, 

 which cuts off some 12 acres 

 of land. The rampart — 20 ft. 

 thick at the base, and in places 

 1 6 ft. high — is walled 4 ft. in 

 height on its outer face. It is 

 approached from a sweeping 

 dip in the ground, well covered 

 by the missiles of the defen- 

 ders. The entrance is formed 

 obliquely by the incurved ends 

 of the rampart, which widens 

 on the right-hand side. An 

 advanced outwork of stone in 

 the form of an arc is upon a 

 mound 13 ft. high and 53 ft. 

 long to the right of the en- 





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low which has the appearance 

 of having been a sunk road 

 to a subsidiary entrenchment 

 on a lower level. 

 This secondary stronghold is on a minor promontory facing Bigbury Bay and the 



a stream which empties itself at this point and provided fresh water to the garrison. 



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east and continues a straight course north-west, where 

 another small rampart on the edge of the cliff forms 

 the exit which emerges on the sunk path leading to 

 the stronger camp mentioned above. This smaller 

 area is overlooked by the rising ground inland, but it 

 provided a protected connexion with the drinking 

 supply, and also with the boats in the bay until the 

 defenders might possibly have to fall back on the great 

 fort above. 



Okehampton (O.S. Ixxvii, 5). — On a high 

 promontory formed by the curving of the East 

 Okement river, which surrounds the north, east, and 

 south of the termination of a spur of hills on the 

 north-east side of Dartmoor, is a simple camp. 



The promontory is crossed by a rampart and 

 ditch of serpentine plan ; the agger rises 8 ft. from the 

 inside, and has an escarpment of 14 ft. into an outer 

 fosse 6 ft. in depth. 



The entrance is in the middle of the vallum, 

 which slightly curves at each side in opposite direc- 

 tions. On the eastern extremity of the promontory, 

 near the verge of the cleave, is the fragment of a 

 breastwork following the line of the land, and a table- 

 topped mound 3 ft. high is in the south-east angle. 



Outside the camp to the west traces of two hut- 

 circles remain, and on the north side of the ridge 

 flows the Moor Brook. 



Otterton (O.S. xciv, 5). — High Peak, One 

 mile to the west of Sidmouth the destructive waves 

 wash the base of a cliff which rises perpendicularly 

 from the sea to a height of 5 1 1 ft,, and has a summit of conical form. All that now remains of the 

 stronghold that once crowned the cone of High Peak Hill is but a fragment of an earthwork. 



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