. Caledonia : or, a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological . lwark of stones, the remains whereof still the ditch, which was ten feet broad, and fourteen feet below the founda-tion of the wall, a narrow bridge was raised, about eighteen feet long and twofeet broad: this bridge was composed of stones, which had been laid togetherwithout much art, and vitrified on all sides, so that the whole mass was firmly (rf) Those intimations correspond witli the remains of the sev
. Caledonia : or, a historical and topographical account of North Britain, from the most ancient to the present times with a dictionary of places chorographical & philological . lwark of stones, the remains whereof still the ditch, which was ten feet broad, and fourteen feet below the founda-tion of the wall, a narrow bridge was raised, about eighteen feet long and twofeet broad: this bridge was composed of stones, which had been laid togetherwithout much art, and vitrified on all sides, so that the whole mass was firmly (rf) Those intimations correspond witli the remains of the several British forts in South-Britain,which had their Cells, and structures, and wells. Pennants Tour in Wales, v. ii., p. 203, 215, 216,321; Archaiol., v. iii., p. 305, pi. xiv. (e) Pennants Tom-, v. ii., p. 157—9 ; Kings Munimenta Antiq., v. i., p. 27. (/) Davis, Richards, and Oweu. {g) OBrien and Shaw: there is a British fortress on Pen-y-crog, in Brecknockshire, which ia saidto be on the top of a high hill; to be of an oval foi-m, and to be surrounded by t/iree deep and broadentrenchments. Archaiol., v. i., p. 299. See the Drawing of this fortress. / T., r To ftiiY p. —The Tribes, their Antiquities.] OfNOETH-BEITAIN. 91 cemented: this is the only part of the fortifications which appears to have beenintentionally vitrified (h). There seems to be no vestige of a well ; but west-ward, between the base of the mound and the precipice, there was a deep pondwhich had been recently filled up. The tradition of the country, which isprobably derived from the fiction of Boece, relates that this vast strength ofBarry-hill was the appropriate prison of Arthurs queen, the well knownGuenever, who had been taken prisoner by the Picts. About a quarter of amile eastward, on the declivity of the hill, there are some remains of another ovalfort, which was defended by a strong wall and deep ditch; and which, how-ever, was of less strength than the preceding. The same tradition relates,wit
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