MORTIMER: BRITISH HABITATIONS ON DANBY NORTH MOOR. 407 
to north-east : and the lines on both sides are nearl}^ at right- 
angles to it. Tliose on the east begin on the verge of the sloping 
Imnk on tliat side of the valley, and extend eastwards above 100 
j)aces. In this range are 28 pits, 14 in each row. The breadth 
of the whole range is about 50 feet, including the walls on each side. 
The l)readth of each pit is about 10 feet, which is nearly the distance 
between one pit and another. Beyond this range, 100 paces to the 
south-east, is the connnencement of another, containing only 6 pits, 
.") in each row,t yet having a wall on each side like the other. 
Uut the principal collection is on the west side, commencing at 
^ about 150 paces from the western edge of the valley, and ex- 
tending westwards to a great distance. This collection, which 
is not exactly in a line with the first range, being a little south, 
iis composed of two ranges : the one 130 paces in length, comprising 
•)0 pits, 15 in each row; the other about 140 paces, containing 
•U pits, 17 in each row. These two ranges are nearly in a line, 
an interval of 25 paces being left between them. They are a 
little broader than the first range, a wider space being left 
between the rows of pits, which are enclosed by the same kind 
of low earthern walls on the outside. There are no walls at the 
ends of any of the ranges, these being left open, apparently with 
a view to admit of additions. The most westerly range, Avhich 
is also the largest, is distinguished by this peculiarity : that near 
the middle of the south row we find instead of a pit, a circular 
space, 35 feet in diameter, enclosed by the low w^all on this side, 
which here projects in a semicircle outwards, and another semi- 
circle inwards, to form this circular space ; the centre of which 
is, therefore, not in the line of the pits, but in the line of the wall." 
Secondly, in the Gentleman^ s Magazine for 1861, in an article 
on encampments and earthworks, this series of pits is also referred 
to as under : — 
"The most interesting and instructive site (speaking of pit 
settlements) is that on the Danby Moors. For the following 
account of this remarkable spot I am partly indebted," says the 
t These are not shown on the Ordnance Survey. 
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