In an inclosure on the east of Pott church and village, adjoining to a modern, genteel dwelling house, the faint form of a fosse is just to be discerned. Soon however the line of a large agger, bounded by a suitable trench, makes its appearance. It points towards the brow of Burystead, which it forthwith ascends in a sinuous form; the course of the whole from Pott church having been about two hundred paces.

The brow of Burystead must here be again represented as no more than a projection from the Sponds region: bounded on the left or north by the long deep hollow of Paxton dale, and on the right or south by a smaller clough ascending through Pott, close to the genteel dwelling house already mentioned, from the rear of Beesta.

On the rise of the brow, two lines of direction present themselves in the course of the agger. On the right or south it winds with an unbroken and curved range, for the space of one hundred paces, to the margin of the clough last mentioned. The high bank of the hollow then serves as a barrier or rampart, for the length of sixty paces more in a southerly direction, where the clough arrives at a point of termination.

Here the intention of the embankment from Pott is demonstrated to have been military, by the existence of an encampment upon this site. It is divided into two sections, and connected also with an additional, religious structure.

The first section is the smallest, stationed on the point of the clough in the resemblance of a parallelogram. From this point the inferior end runs about forty paces to the south;

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when a side of one hundred and fifty paces is projected to the east; both of them consisting of a single vallum with a fosse on the outside.

At the expiration of the side a line of agger appears, ranging along the higher brow of Burystead, from south-east to north-west. Its rise is in all probability from the vicinity of Harrop wood, as its exit is most demonstrably into Paxton dale: supplying a basement for the deposition of the camp. The figure of it is single, subtended by a fosse; but its dimensions have been considerable. At thirty paces in its progress, to the north, from the angle of the parallelogram, the interior side of the figure is drawn: passing westward down to the point of the clough, parallel with the exterior line, but somewhat exceeding it in length.

Here the second and larger section of the encampment commences. The limit of it is formed by the length of eighty three paces, measured still along the line of the great trans. verse agger: during the last forty of which immense stones present themselves as the rudiments of the line. At this distance, arrival is made upon the borders of Paxton dale. Turning westward down the hill along its course, and nearly close to its brink, a large sloping mound is erected for the extent of two hundred paces: forming the portion of a larger The view of its formation is,

but irregular parallelogram.

however, here impeded by the insertion of the religious structure, already alluded to.

The construction of this is the same in its outline with the one upon Alderley Edge, mentioned in page 200; a progression of stones, of rude natural formation, disposed one by one in the order of a circle, and surrounding an area open to the sky. It bears however no comparison in its dimensions, and is different likewise in other particulars.

The form of the circle is not altogether exact, and is diffi cult to be ascertained, because no view of the whole can be obtained from any one point, on account of its situation in the depression of a brow having two aspects. The following however is the calculation and figure, formed by taking paces, and marking the conversions of the figure with a pencil during that process. The stones composing it are in general large but unequal oblongs, deposited on their longest sides.

From the termination of the mound said to run along Paxton dale, the portion of circumference, measuring forty paces, enters into the area of the larger parallelogram of the encampment. Thence the three sides of a small square, ten paces each, make a projection into the area of the circle; and a passage from it into that of the encampment is marked by a vacancy betwixt two large and erect stones. A portion of circumference containing sixty paces is then repeated; and upon this a second and entire ring of twenty paces is formed, partly within and partly without the area of the main circle.

The contents of this ring are on one side much excavated by recent violence, and on the other much elevated by ancient art; seeming to indicate the existence of a mount of earth