. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. DIMENSIONS OF VALLUM IN NORTHUMBERLAND. 409 Near Melkridge Bog the Vallum is overhung: from bothnorth and south. The inner south mound is not easilytraced by the eye, but the level shows it well-marked. Ithas many large stones in it, showing through turf. Theyare also seen on the north berm and in the principalmounds. At the east end of the field the inner southmound looked the larger of the two, but a bull was masterof the situation, and we took no measurements. The eastern section near Cawfields is on a very
. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. DIMENSIONS OF VALLUM IN NORTHUMBERLAND. 409 Near Melkridge Bog the Vallum is overhung: from bothnorth and south. The inner south mound is not easilytraced by the eye, but the level shows it well-marked. Ithas many large stones in it, showing through turf. Theyare also seen on the north berm and in the principalmounds. At the east end of the field the inner southmound looked the larger of the two, but a bull was masterof the situation, and we took no measurements. The eastern section near Cawfields is on a very largescale, the western is considerably smaller, as the ditch hasbeen partly filled up by natural causes, and the northmound, on very sharply rising ground, has always beenmuch narrower and lower than usual. 1 have been some-what doubtful whether to include these under profile A.(with a small inner mound) or to compare them with pro-file C. of the Cumberland sections at Bleatarn and else-where, where there are two principal inner mounds andtwo subsidiary outer mounds. The variou
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