. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. ILL. were really such, I have been led to query whether they may notindicate that the rampart was built (much after the pattern of thoseof Worlebury, in Somerset, and of certain camps in Wales and else-where, in which the original work remains more or less intact^, inthree contiguous, but independent, thicknesses, each 3 or 4 feetthrough : the outer one perhaps 9 feet high, its upper part forminga parapet; the middle one about 5 feet high, its levelled top forminga banquette or narrow clicmin de ronde; the inn
. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society. ILL. were really such, I have been led to query whether they may notindicate that the rampart was built (much after the pattern of thoseof Worlebury, in Somerset, and of certain camps in Wales and else-where, in which the original work remains more or less intact^, inthree contiguous, but independent, thicknesses, each 3 or 4 feetthrough : the outer one perhaps 9 feet high, its upper part forminga parapet; the middle one about 5 feet high, its levelled top forminga banquette or narrow clicmin de ronde; the inner one 3 feet high,furnishing a step for easily mounting the rampart. Such a recon-struction gets rid of the most serious difficulties ; harmonises thestyle of fortification with that of the great stone-built strongholds ;and enables us to offer a reasonable suggestion as to what may havebeen the original form of the rampart at Hugill, without settingaside the evidence afforded by its best analogues. Such an hypo-thetical section (which must be taken for whatever it may be worth). is shown in the illustration. It represents a parapet-wall 9 feet highon the outer face, 4 feet on the inner, and 3 or 4 feet thick, with a 6feet walk behind it, raised a few feet above the level of the access to this could be gained at any point by means of asloping bank of earth. The diagram is completed by a section ofone of the huts built against the western portion of the wall. Withthis mode of construction, the attached huts would offer no obstacleto a free access to the wall behind them. It is rather singular that the parts of the circuit on the higherground, toward the north, north-east and east, are just those wherethe profile of the present bank is the slightest; and it is not evidentwhy these—which, facing up the hill, ought to be much higher thanthey are—should have been so much more degraded than are thesouthern portions which, in several places, retain most of their prope
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