. The Victoria history of the county of Devon;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE latter is wholly demolished, and the mound alone remains, cinctured by a winding ascent to the summit, some 6o ft. in height. The top is a flat area 40 ft. in diameter. Neither fosse nor other earthwork remain, only this noble mound survives on the scene of many conflicts, ending in its surrender to General Fairfax in 1646. Blackawton ( cxxvii, 14).—'The Mount,' also called *The Beacon,' is a truncated cone 20 ft. in height and about 30 ft. in diameter at the base. It is situated i^ miles west of Woodb
. The Victoria history of the county of Devon;. Natural history. A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE latter is wholly demolished, and the mound alone remains, cinctured by a winding ascent to the summit, some 6o ft. in height. The top is a flat area 40 ft. in diameter. Neither fosse nor other earthwork remain, only this noble mound survives on the scene of many conflicts, ending in its surrender to General Fairfax in 1646. Blackawton ( cxxvii, 14).—'The Mount,' also called *The Beacon,' is a truncated cone 20 ft. in height and about 30 ft. in diameter at the base. It is situated i^ miles west of Woodbury, at the junction of the roads to Blackawton and Strete. Exeter.—Dane's Castle. A circular mount about 150 ft. in diameter, with a cavity in the top and traces of a surrounding fosse, formerly stood in a field to the north of the city and opposite the castle, behind the county gaol ; but it was destroyed for the construction of a reservoir. LoxHORE ( X, 9).—Castle Roborough, to the east of Loxhore town, 5^ miles north-east of Barnstaple, and situated on a hill in the valley of the Yeo, is a simple mound, about 120 ft. in diameter at the base. It rises 15 ft. in height, and in its summit is a basin-shaped hollow over 7 ft. in depth. This is one of a group of earthworks forming a chain across the narrow northern part of the county from Barnstaple to the morass defences of Exmoor, and is within signalling distance of camps in the adjacent parishes of Stoke Rivers, Bratton Fleming, and Shirwell. NoRTHAM ( xix, i).—Kenwith Castle, also called Cynwit, Cynuit and Kenwic, and locally known as Henni Castle and Henniborough, is situated at the upper end of a small valley on the north-west of Bideford, a little over a mile distant. Kenwith was the scene of a stirring battle in the ninth century, a contest which proved one of the most decisive means of raising England from the humiliation of Danish domination, and we cannot but express our regret that the exigencies of s
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