A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



depth, but on the north side it is 1 8 ft. 

 deep and 30 ft. wide. The bailey, of 

 horseshoe-form, lies on the north-east- 

 by-east, and is entered from the keep 

 at its north-east juncture with the 

 mount-fosse. It is surrounded by a 

 rampart from one to six feet in height, 

 the lowest portion being on the south. 

 The escarpment to the base of the 

 fosse is 1 6 ft. perpendicular height, and 

 the fosse is 5 ft. deep. 



Two entrances pass through the 

 defences of the court, at the north and 

 at the south-east, both of them passing 

 the ditch and rampart in an oblique 

 direction as a better defence against 

 assailants. 



On the north side an additional 

 defence was found to be necessary for 

 this, the most exposed position. Here 

 a rampart 2 ft. high and a ditch 3 ft. 

 deep and the same width, makes an 

 arc fully 200 ft. long, from the northern 

 entrance to the fosse of the mount.-' 



(O.S. xlii, 1 2). — Within the same 

 wood the southern fort is also of the 

 mount and court type, yet totally dis- 

 similar to the last. In plan it is al- 

 most rectangular and the mount ellipti- 

 cal, On the edge of the steep bank 

 of the Taw the natural features have 

 been utilized and considered all the 

 defence necessary ; but on the west 

 side, where the ground rises higher than 

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Camp at Wembworthy. 



A fosse or sunken road is cut into the sloping ground round the south end and west side of 

 the fortress, each extremity of the fosse issuing upon the contour of the hill, and isolating the 

 portion from the hill-side. 



' It is possible that the two ways cut through the rampart of the bailey are modern and that the 

 additional work on the north-west was a timber defended barbican covering the only access to the stronghold. 

 Compare Mexborough Castle in Yorkshire. 



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