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On British Stone and Earthworks 



enclosure shows an opening like the preceding ones, of the same 

 width, and this bank, with a ditch in front, is continued for some 

 distance beyond the sides of the enclosure ; on the eastern side the 

 prolongation beyond the north-east corner of the enclosure can be 

 followed for something like 150 feet in a straight line; on the west 

 side the prolongation measures about 130, but it is not straight, 

 being curved at the extremity towards the north. The ground inside 

 the second enclosure is very uneven, the rock coming to the surface 

 in many places ; and it may be remarked generally that the irregu- 

 larities of the whole construction are in some measure due to the 

 natural uneveness of the ground. It should be added that a line 

 drawn from the middle of the principal or south entrance and through 

 the other openings to the middle of the last towards the north, 

 would not be straight ; the axis of the first quadrangular enclosure 

 deviating to the north-east, that of the second to the north-west. 

 To the west of the second quadrangular enclosure, at a distance of 

 about 100 feet is a small circle formed by a very shallow ditch, 

 without a bank, except on the north side, where it is very distinct 

 for a short space ; ' the diameter inside the ditch may be put at 47 

 feet ; there is a depression in the middle, but it appears to be natural. 

 To the east of these earthworks near the east brow of the ridge 

 some others appear, forming the three sides of a rhomboid enclosure, 

 the fourth being open. The west side — about 90 feet long and 

 nearly 3 feet in height, with a shallower ditch in front — runs nearly 

 due south and north; the southern extremity being nearly 100 feet 

 distant from the circle, and the northern about 90 feet distant 

 from the nearest point of the eastern bank of the first enclosure. 

 The second side of this rhomboid figure runs north-east, forming an 

 angle of about 120 degrees with the west side; its length is 114 

 feet, and from its north-eastern extremity the third side runs back- 

 wards, north to south, under an angle of about 60 degrees, con- 

 sequently parallel with the first-described side, but the length of it 

 is only 64 feet, and it ends abruptly. It does not appear for what 

 purpose this last-mentioned earthwork could have been executed in 

 modem times, nor is there anything about it indicating a different 

 date from that of the circle. 



