. The North Devon coast. The ingenuity of this derivationcompels our admiring attention, even if it doesnot win our agreement. Ptolemy styled HartlandPoint the Point of Hercules, and Barnstaple isthought to have been the Roman Artavia; but noevidence of any kind associates Clovelly with thosetimes. The great triple-ditched prehistoric earth-works at Clovelly Cross, where the road down tothe village branches from the highway, point tosome ancient people having been settled here andgreatly concerned to defend the place ; but thehistory of Clovelly Dykes, or Ditchens, as theyare called, will neve
. The North Devon coast. The ingenuity of this derivationcompels our admiring attention, even if it doesnot win our agreement. Ptolemy styled HartlandPoint the Point of Hercules, and Barnstaple isthought to have been the Roman Artavia; but noevidence of any kind associates Clovelly with thosetimes. The great triple-ditched prehistoric earth-works at Clovelly Cross, where the road down tothe village branches from the highway, point tosome ancient people having been settled here andgreatly concerned to defend the place ; but thehistory of Clovelly Dykes, or Ditchens, as theyare called, will never be written. Clovellys namealmost certainly derives from words meaning thecliff place, the site of it being amazingly clovendown the face of the steep cliffs that on eitherhand present a bold front to the sea. The forcethat carved out this astonishing cleft was the same 208 CLOVELLY 209 that has fashioned the many combes and mouthsalong this coast ; an impetuous stream rushingfrom the inland heights. Indeed, the cobble-.
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