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to drive a number of cattle through one or two wide openings than 

 over half-a-dozen such narrow bridges as these. 



It is, then impracticable to regard these breaks in the entrench- 

 ment as due to an unfinished undertaking, or as entrances in any 

 ordinary sense, and the only other feasible theory seems to be that 

 they had some distinct purpose in the scheme of defence ; that 

 they were, indeed, a strengthening and not a weakening factor in 

 this seemingly not very strongly-defended place. 



The causeways may have been left as platforms from which to 

 enfilade the ditch, the defenders being stationed -upon them for 

 that purpose. The distance from one causeway to another is not 

 greater than would be within reach of hand-thrown missiles. Any 

 determined attempt to scale the stockade with which the rampart 

 was presumably strengthened could probably have been more 

 effectually prevented from the causeway than if the defenders were 

 themselves shut up behind the stockade, or forced to come out 

 from some more distant entrance at risk of having their own retreat 

 cut off. These causeways would have been, in fact, sally ports 

 admirably adapted for defence of the ditch. 



From one of the gangways (the fourth counting from the west) 

 there is a low bank leading down the hill towards what is believed 

 to be the old roadway leading to the camp ; this bank can be traced 

 for about fifty yards ; it has no ditch and is less than a foot in 

 height. 



With the exception of this bank there is nothing to differentiate 

 the gangways, and no sign of a beaten track leading to either of 

 them. 



There is a trackway leading up the eastern side of the hill, now 

 used as the road to Golden Ball Hill. The way is much worn into 

 more than one track, and it is probable that this was the ancient road 

 leading to both the old hill camp, and to the later plateau enclosure. 

 It is thought that the main entrance to the old camp was on 

 this eastern side of the hill to which the trackway leads, as well 

 as that of the plateau enclosure, but the features of the entrance^ ' 

 to the old camp have been obscured, if not entirely obliterated, by 

 the later people. 



