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 GAULISH FORTRESSES ON THE COAST OF BRITTANY. 317 entrance, is of rectangular furni, 30 ft. long, by nearly 17 ft. broad, touching the rampart, and constructed of Hat stones of a moderate size sunk in the ground with their sides touching. Other stones are placed above this first course, or range, so as to form as regular courses as the material permitted. About 32 yards to the west of the main entrance occurs the most important structure of the whole fortress C. llectangular in form, like the j)receding one, and also resting against the ramparts, it measures 14 yards long by 9 broad. The walls, nearly a 3'ard thick, are of dry masonry, but the stones are smaller than those used in the buildiiiir B, and arc arranged very carefully. An enclosure, the banks of which at present arc very low and composed of earth and stone, runs from the north-west angle and connects it with a building E, of the same rectangular form as the preceding, j)laced about 12 yards further to the west, and constructed exactly in the same manner as B, but measuring only 5h yards by 3. (See fig. 9.) A kind of court, in which a depression of the ground indicates the remains of a house, lies between the ramj)art and the enclosure which connects the two houses C and E. In company with M. Grcnot, in the month of June, 1868, I first visited Castel Coz, which, up to that period, seems to liave been unknown to antiquaries. In 1869 I made several other visits, and on one occasion with Mr. Burtt, one of the honorary secretaries of the llo3'al Archcuological Institute, but without discovering anything which could throw light on its origin and history. Some small fragments of pottery, which were evidently ancient, but of no decided character, and a few irregular flint chippings, which had been brought by moles to the surface, did not give sufficient grounds for forming any opinion. There was, indeed, a striking resem- blance between this fortress and the entrenchments so common in Finisture, and usually assigned to the middle ages, and in or near which are constantly observed traces of dwellings simihir to those at Castel Coz, in connection with the conical /lattc or mound, which is surmounted usually by the remains of a rectangular tower. On the other hand, there was some analogy with the fortified places, enclosing traces of ciicular habitations, as lately noticed in France, and more particularly in Wales and Scotland, and which are