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top, and from 18 inches to 3 feet at the bottom, the excavated 
material from which now sli«^htly raises the natural contour of the 
liill-side along their lower edge, and originally may have been suffi- 
ciently higli to cover from sight a tall man while passing along the 
bottom. The lower halves of these trenches were found to be filled 
with small chalk grit which had been slowly removed from the hill- 
sides above by rain and frost, and the upper portions were charged 
with soil-like matter. A short description of each hollow-way will 
throw some light on their use, show the uniformity of tlieir plan, and 
enable their positions to be maile out on the 6-iiJch Ordnance Maps. 
No. 1 is visible for three ([uarters of a mile, running midway 
along the S.W hill-side of " Rain Dale," and about a chain-length 
below the entrenchments, locally called double dykes, which run 
along the brow of the hill-side. At its bottom we observed two to 
three inches of gritty matter, comparatively hard and compact as if 
from having been freijuently walked u})on, 
No. 2 branches from No. 1 at a point on the 6-inch O.S., 
marked by the letter " e " in Rain Dale. It crosses the east end of 
" Wan Dale," and is visible midway between the northern side to the 
western termination of this dale. 
No. 3 is distinctly shown for a short distance dividing, equally, 
the hill-side called " Haggdale Cliff." It faces the south side of the 
railway, lialf way between Fimber and Burdale stations, and can be 
seen from the train. From here it is traceable in places as far as 
Burdale, and is w^ell shoAvn terminating there on the S. ^Y. hill-side, 
near a fine spring of water, (about 2 miles from Fimber) to which it 
probably led, there being no other spring of w^ater within twice the 
distance from the village of Fimber. 
No. 4 strikes nearly due north from Fimber, then swerves more 
easterly towards the old settlement of Towthorpe, but only begins to 
be distinctly traceable on the surface at the southern end of " Big 
Dale," on the eastern hill-side, where it is cut across by a double 
dyke, (entrenchments) running vertically up the hill-side in the direc- 
tion of Sledniere. June 8th, 1863, the Section, pi. ix., fig. 4, was taken 
about 200 yards north of the entrenchments, and on August 29th, 
I860, we made an excavation into the north side rampart of the 
