holmes: PRE-HISTOIU'- remains of R0MBALD3 xMoalt. 311 
large quantities of stones which comprised the walls were carted 
away. . . . . I am inclined to think from its shape that it has 
been really an enclosure for cattle, which were driven in at the open 
mouth west, and were secured in the inner inclosures." Mr John 
James, the historian, of Bra'lford, held this to be an enclosure for 
cattle. He thought it was constructed by the Romans for the pur- 
pose of protection or shelter at nights in the feeding seasons upon 
the moor. As figured upon the 6-inch ordnance map, the enclosure 
looks very like those animal mound forms, such as we have figured 
in the Smithsonian transactions as frequent in Central America, 
North and South, and such as in serpent forms Mr. John S. Phene 
has proved to exist in various places in Scotland and the Hebrides. 
[See British Association Transactions, 1870-1.] There may be 
clearly traced the forms of heads to the east, body and tails to the 
west, the latter curving into an imperfect circle at the end, all being 
fitting for use as enclosures. In plate vii. Borlase figures a very simi- 
lar enclosure upon Karnber Hill, having an irregular circle or head, a 
large body, and a continuation like a tail having a curve, just like 
the one on Rombalds Moor. This is composed of stones set upon 
edge, with smaller stones and earth filled in between. It appears to 
have contained cup and ring marked stones, and to have held tumuli 
or mounds, which might be a village of huts, of which the figured 
stones are a chart or plan. While this singular and still easily 
traceable object may be of a very remote period, it may also be of 
historic time and application. That caution in hypothesis as to use, 
time, and meaning of such relicts is necessary, we may instance in 
the other and last of our illustrations of the remains upon Rombalds 
Moor. 
The Lanshaw Delves have always attracted notice, and have 
been characterised as a Roman camp or a British village, as the ideas 
of the investigator inclined. They were thus Roman to Whitaker 
and James, and British to Banks, TVardell, and Forrest. 'Mr. Forrest 
was very positive, as a few extracts will show : " What is called the 
camp is simply a British village, consisting sometimes of a double 
and sometimes a triple row of hut dwellings, upwards of a mile in 
length by about 40 yards in breadth, narrowing to the western ex- 
