408 MORTIMER: BRITISH HABITATIONS ON DANBY NORTH MOOR. 
writer, "to a MS. report of an investigation b}^ a party of 
gentlemen 12 or 14 years since" (about 1(S46), "but not less to 
my own personal and repeated examinations. Tlie site consists 
of a collection of pits. These pits are circular in form, and 
divided into separate groups ; but every group is arranged in two 
parallel lines — pit over against pit ; an arrangement which is 
deviated from, in one or both particulars, in other sites, both 
here and elsewhere. 
"All of these excavations have been from 4 to 5 feet deep, 
as compared with the present surface of the surrounding moor : 
all of them paved at that depth with stone, and probably rough- 
walled wdth uncemented stone within as well, and from 10 to 12 
feet in external diameter. (These measurements were obtained 
from the explorations made by the Whitby gentlemen previously 
referred to.) 
"There are two principal groups: — One (No. 2 on the map) 
composed of two members, or streets, not in exactly the same 
straight line, and with an interval of 25 feet between their 
terminations ; the other (No. 1 on the map), which lies beyond a 
small stream, and on the verge of the slope towards it, is smaller 
in dimensions. It contains 30 or more pits. About 100 yards 
to the south of this is the supposed commencement of another. 
This contains six pits. Home, it is supposed, have become indis- 
cernible through lapse of time and its effects. The one upon the 
further or western side of the stream (No. 2 on the map) is 
larger, and numbers 68 excavations in all — 30 in one division 
and 38 in the other. This range is broader by some feet than 
the eastern group, which is 50 feet from side to side. That 
measurement includes the walls, formed of earth heaped over 
stones and fragments of rock, and each two to three yards thick, 
which encloses the sides of each group of pits. In the larger 
sub-group of the western division one of the excavations (see 
Fig. 1) in the south row is of much greater dimensions than any 
other in the assemblage, being not less than 35 feet in interior 
diameter ; and on coming to it the enclosing wall, which, if con- 
tinued, would pass thi-ough its centre, sweeps round it in a semi- 
