COLE : ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS NEAR WETWANG. 47 
By a reference to the map it will be seen that there are three 
prominent groups of entrenchments, viz., at Aldro, Garrowby Hill, 
and Fimber ; whilst three long lines start from the Western brow of 
the Wolds, and are continued for miles in the direction of Flam- 
borough. The eastern extremities of two of these are figured in the 
map of Major-General Pitt-Rivers, one terminating above Wold 
Newton, the other above Butterwick, in the Great Wold Valley. 
The western extension of the former is shown in the map (PI. I.) 
passing through Sledmere, Fimber, and Fridaythorpe, and probably 
connecting with Garrowby Hill ; that of the latter is continued in 
its westerly course from above Lutton to Burdale, and may have 
joined on to Aldro. A third line not alluded to by the General 
started from opposite Millington, and was carried by Huggate Dikes 
to Wetwang ; thence to the monument erected to the late Sir Tatton 
Sykes, and on by Kilham to Bridlington. All three lines are more 
or less connected by branch dikes, and present a remarkable net- 
work of fortifications such as can hardly be found in any other part 
of England. I use the word " fortification" because General Pitt- 
liivers, looking at the eastern portion of them with the eye of a 
soldier, has pronounced them admirably adapted for defence against 
hostile attack from the Xorth West, and thinks that they were prin- 
cipally constructed for that purpose. He adds that in the part which 
he examined he " found no well-defined example of a dike which 
appeared to have been thrown up as a defence against the east 
side." In the western portion now before you this latter statement 
can hardly be sustained, for the " single dike" at Fimber, with its 
ditch outside, is clearly a, defence against the south east. The same 
may be said of the " double dike" running past the monument to 
Cowlani Dale, which crosses to the northern side of a lateral dale, and 
defends an approach from Driffield. 
At first sight the long line of entrenchments stretching from 
Millington to Wetwang, and again from Foxcover to Wetwang, as 
also from Fimber to Sledmere and Fimber to Life Hill, seem to favour 
the view of defence from the North West ; but I am incHned to 
think that the nature of the ground had a great deal to do with the 
position of the entrenchments in these localities, for the northern and 
