known as .inibrcshuri/ JJanks, Eppmr/ Fureat. G5 



centre, and the present crest of the rampart has gone back 

 some feet towards the interior owing to the greater denudation 

 of the superior slope. The rampart must originally have 

 been about 10 feet high above the old surface line ; it is now 

 7 feet high, and the relief above the bottom of the ditch must 

 have been 20 feet. The base of the silting of the anterior 

 slope may be estimated at about 16 feet, and there is some 

 indication in the seams of the old interior slope ; but this 

 measurement is uncertain, as is often the case in British 

 ramparts. I have not usually found the bottoms of the 

 ditches of British camps pointed. At Cissbury, Caburn, and 

 Sleaford, there were fiat bottoms along which the people 

 might traverse, whereas in the earthwork improperly named 

 Caesar's Camp, near Folkestone, but Norman in its origin, 

 both ditches were pointed like the present one ; but we have 

 no sufficient evidence as yet for determining whether there 

 was any persistency in the form of ditches in British times. 

 I have always assumed, however, that where the old sides of 

 the ditches are found to stand at an angle of stability of 45°, 

 as in the present case, it indicates that the entrenchment was 

 intended to be more or less a permanent work. I should 

 mention that my information as to the form of this ditch is 

 derived entirely from Mr. D'Oyley's reliable section and from 

 his verbal account of it, and not from personal observation, 

 as I had left the camp before the bottom of it was excavated. 

 Whilst excavating the ditch the gentlemen present were 

 struck with the number of rounded and apparently selected 

 pebbles, 2 to 3 inches in diameter, which turned up in the 

 silting near the bottom, and which led them to the conjecture 

 that they must have been imported for use as sling- stones. 

 This observation is the more valuable on their part from the 

 fact that they were not aware at the time that like results 

 had been obtained from other camps. In the Kentish and 

 Sussex camps, I had found and recorded the discovery of 

 similar pebbles in the ditches of works, facts which in those 

 cases were the more noticeable owing to the soil being chalk, 

 and so, therefore, not a pebble-producing formation. The 

 pebbles in these places had been imported from the distant 



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