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NOTES ON THE ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS IN THE NEIGHBOUKHOOD 
OF WETWANG. BY REV. E. MAULE COLE, M.A. 
In 1882 Major-Geiieral Pitt-Rivers published the paper read by 
him the previous year before the British Association at York, on the 
Earthworks of the Yorkshire AVolds, with a map illustrating the dis- 
trict referred to. 
The accompanying map is drawn to show the mass of entrench- 
ments, lying further to the West and South, untouched by the paper 
above mentioned. By his excavations in the earthwork, commonly 
called Danes Dike, at Flamborough, Major-General Pitt-Rivers has 
established the fact tliat that famous entrenchment w^as constructed 
by a people who used flint weapons, and apparently had no know- 
ledge of bronze. He expresses an opinion that the tumuli and 
entrenchments on the Wolds are of a similar age ; but, quoting Canon 
Greenwell's authority, he goes on to observe that the tumuli were 
raised by a people in the early bronze phase of civilization, as bronze 
knife-daggers and celts of an early type had been found in them. 
This may be true of some other area, but not of the one before you, 
which contains some 300 British barrows, opened by Mr. J. R. 
Mortimer, in none of which was any bronze found. 
The tumuli and entrenchments were doubtless to a certain 
extent contemporaneous, though instances can be pointed out where 
an entrenchment has evidently been diverted for the purpose of 
avoiding a t\imulus. If, therefore, any preference as to age must be 
given, it should be in favour of the tumuli. 
The entrenchments are not all of the same kind ; some are merely 
tracks running along the brow of a steep dale, hollowed out originally 
to a depth of four or five feet, the earth thrown up on the lower side 
forming a slight rampart ; these are mostly filled up now. Then 
there is the single dike, a mound (dike) with a ditch ; and frequently 
" double dikes," two parallel mounds wdth corresponding ditches ; and 
in several places three mounds ; at Garrowby and jMillington Lings 
four mounds, and at Huggate no less than five. These latter will be 
described later on. 
