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Angles '). The deacon's pity vented itself in poetic humour. ' Not Angles, but 

 Angels,' he said, 'With faces Angel-like.' 'From what country come they?' 

 ' They come,' said the merchant, ' from Deira.' ' De ira,' was the untranslateable 

 word play of the vivacious Roman, ' aye, plucked from God's ire and called to 

 Christ's mercy ! ' 'And what is the name of their king?' They told him '^lla,' 

 and Gregory again seized on this word as of good omen, 'Alleluia shall be sung in 

 Julia's land,' he said, and passed on, musing how the 'Angel faces' should be 

 brought to sing it. " 



^lla died in 588, and his children fled from Deira, as .^thelric entered it in 

 triumph to take possession. Whether JEWoj really ever came into Herefordshire 

 must be left for others to discover — as yet there is no proof that he did so. 



It may be mentioned here that Napoleon, when writing the Life of Julius 

 Ccesar, sent some of the most eminent engineers and surveyors to visit and ex- 

 amine thoroughly all the encampments in Gaul, which could bear any relation to 

 Julius Csesar, and they arrived at tlie very decided conclusion that "the Gauls did 

 not make intrenchments before the invasion of the Romans. They did not under- 

 stand an inclosure with a regular vallum and ditch. They threw up embankments 

 of earth and stones, and left the trench from which the earth came, but they did 

 not make the ditch a part of their defence." If such entrenchments were not used 

 in Gaul, it is little likely that they would be in Britain, and their existence, 

 therefore, implies work of a later date. 



The camp itself is very large. It comprises within its area nearly 30 acres of 

 ground. It has two main entrances ; one from the north, through the outer 

 portion, called "Fluck's Close," and another from the east — this entrance is 

 approached by a deep fosse road, or covered way, from the north, and it is also 

 defended by a traverse and deep fosse in front of it. The camp is supplied with 

 water from a spring close to the ramparts, and by two ponds in the southern side 

 of the outer fosse. The portion on which we now stand is the bastion guarding 

 the northern entrance, and is called " The Churchyard," but whether the human 

 bones which have been found in the camp came from here is not stated. The 

 portion termed " The Camp " is nearly rectangular, with a small projection at the 

 eastern end, called "The Little Camp." It is nearly 20 feet higher than the 

 western portion. This is called "Peas Hill," with the narrow portion near the 

 eastern entrance, called ' ' Humble Bee Park. " In a surveyor's plan, dated 1733, 

 this portion is covered with wood, and it was doubtless the removal of this that 

 caused the outer ramparts to be so much defaced. The very excellent plan of the 

 whole camp now shown to you was drawn by H. H. Lines, Esq., of Worcester, 

 who has most kindly given permission to have it lithographed for the Club's 

 Transaclio7is. You will observe an entrance on the western side ; this is not an 

 original entrance. The fosse near it is called "The King's Ditch," but the origin 

 of this name is lost. The camp is surrounded by woods, named Kite's Nest wood, 

 Mallenders wood. Red Hill wood, and Foxholes wood, but these names do not 

 afford much information. 



The present tenant of the farm, Mr. J. J. Mutlow, has found Roman coins of 

 brass in the camp, but they have been lost. It is said also that spear heads, arrow 



