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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 2. Mr. Bateman describes the top of CRONKSTONE HILL, a consider- able elevation of the West Derwent ridge, as ' surrounded by a vallum and rampart of earth and stone, ranging about 100 yards on every side of a barrow.' The traces of these are now much less marked than they seem to have been in his days. 1 3. On the summit of GREAT FINN, or FIN Cop (xxiii. 6), in the township of Taddington, at an elevation of 1,071 feet above the sea level, was another of the lofty Derbyshire camps surrounding a hilltop. Bateman, writing in the ' forties ' of last century, said of this site, ' There are many ancient British remains which are gradually disappear- ing under cultivation.' * Since that date still more of the ramparts of this once large earthwork have disappeared. There seems to have been a considerable enclosure following the general configuration of the summit. A piece of double rampart, about 550 feet long, is extant on the east side, whilst a single rampart runs round in a curve further south. SIMPLE ENCLOSURED CAMPS [CLASS C] 1. On HARROP Moss (iii. 6), in Glossop parish, is a small pear- shaped enclosure within a single rampart. The greatest length of the inner area, from north to south, is 265 feet ; the greatest width is 160 feet. This enclosure or camp is known as TORSIDE CASTLE. 2. On HARTHILL MOOR (xxviii. 11), immediately to the north of Moor Farm, is a small elliptical enclosure or camp known as CASTLE 1 Bateman's Vestiges, iz?. * Bateman 's Vestigts. SCALEOF FtET o 100 200 300 Site Tumulus ' HARTHILL MOOR. 371