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S.W. [South West] end where best preserved it has a depth of 7'
below both scarp & counterscarp. The
outer trench measures some 25' across the top
and 8' at the bottom - and, also at the S W. [South West] end,
has a depth of 7' below the crest of its scarp
and 5' to 6' below that of the counterscarp.
The parapet mound around the interior is
formidable and at highest presents a steep scarp
to the ditch 12' in height. The entrance has been
through the defences at the NE [North East] end . The
interior surface is broken on one side by low
outcropping rock and does not appear to have
been levelled. In the S. [South] corner at the base of the
rampart is a hole in which nettles &c are growing,
with a diameter of 8', and it has somewhat the
appearance of a well filled with stones. A
similar hollow lies at the base of the outer
mound beyond it with a diameter of about
6'. The ramparts are partially of rock left
in the excavation of the ditches or of stones and
earth. Across the inner ditch at the S W. [South West] end
& some 80' from the S. [South] angle a mass of rock
has been left forming a foot track or gangway onto the
inner rampart.
I never saw so many hares as I do in this
district. In one field which I merely crossed I saw 12 on foot at once!