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part of a circular wall, and Mr. Marsh himself had carted hundreds of 
loads of the material, and had seen enough to satisfy him that there 
was a circular foundation of about five feet in width, which he judged 
to be continuous with the portion before them. 
Mr. Marsz stated that that was so, and that the carting away of 
material had gone on for ten or fifteen years. 
Mr. Roaca Sirs expressed himself as still confident that, when 
the foundations were laid open, his theory would be found to be the 
correct one. 
Being unable to settle that knotty point, the archeologists then 
returned to their carriages and proceeded on their way ; first visiting 
the interesting old Church of Great Durnford, and then climbing 
the hill to Ogbury Camp. This earth-work, as stated by Mr. 
Stevens in his excellent guide, is of very simple construction. It 
includes an area of about sixty-two acres, and is defended by an 
earthen bank, about thirty-three feet in height, without an aceom- 
panying ditch; there is an entrance on the eastern side. Stukeley 
thus describes it :— On the east side of the river Avon, by Great 
Durnford, is a very large camp, covering the whole top of a hill, of 
no determinate figure, as humouring the height it stands on; it is 
entirely without any ditch, the earth being heaped up very steep in 
the nature of a parapet, when dug away level at the bottom. I doubt 
not but this was a camp of the Britons, and perhaps an oppidum, 
where they retired at night from the pasturage upon the river, with 
their cattle; within it are many little banks carried straight, and 
meeting one another at right-angles, square, oblong parallels, and 
some oblique, as the meres and divisions between ploughed lands ; 
yet it seems never to have been ploughed ; and there is likewise a 
small squarish work intrenched, no bigger than a large tent; these 
seem to me the distinctions and divisions for the several quarters and 
lodgments of the people within. This camp has an aspect very old; 
the prominent part of the rampart in many places quite consumed 
by time, though the steep remains perfect; one being the natural 
earth, the other fictitious.” Sir Richard Hoare confirms the accuracy 
of the above description, but considers that the “ small squarish 
work” is of very recent date, “It is singular,” adds Mr. Stevens, 
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