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from 63 feet on the east side to 70 feet on the west from its bottom to the summit 

 of the earthwork rampart. The entrance on the south has been already mentioned, 

 and on the north-east there is another entrance with a traverse or covering work. 

 Traces of earthworks still remain extending to Northwood or Netherwood, which 

 have been used to fill up the moat round the house. Another earthwork conducted 

 to Kyre Common and a third to Collington. Mr. H. H. Lines, of Worcester, as 

 shewn by a plan exhibited by Mr. Robert Clarke, taking an available internal 

 area of 1,220 feet by 650 feet, and drawing out a camp in accordance with the 

 regulations of the Roman Army, estimated that it was capable of accommodating 

 so many as 4,094 soldiers. There is abundance of water on the eastern side, and 

 near the north-east entrance. At the foot of the hill on the west, leading over the 

 grounds of Thornbury House, towards Thornbury Church is an excellent unfailing 

 spring called "Lady Well," from which, according to tradition, was an under- 

 ground communication with the camp, terminating at the locality now occupied 

 by the two yew trees on the western side. Mr. Perry, the present tenant of the 

 large brick residence near the Church, called Thornbury House, informed us that 

 he, when a boy, explored this passage to a distance of forty feet. In the time of 

 his predecessor, and also during his own tenancy, the ground has subsided— in a 

 direct line between the springs and the camp, about mid-way between them— to 

 such an extent as to have required about a dozen loads of earth to fill up the 

 cavity formed. So soon as the circuit of the camp had been completed, the 

 President, Mr. Geo. H. Piper, read to the assembled Members a short paper on 

 the subject of the Camp and its surroundings, which we regret we have not been 

 able to obtain for publication. 



Northwood or iMetherwood, a farm of 600 acres, one mile north-east, was 

 part of the estate of the Mortimers. William Baskerville, Lord of Eardisley, 

 who had accompanied the army of the Earl of Richmond, afterwards Henry VII., 

 from Leominster, received a grant of it from that monarch. Upon the authority 

 of Blount, Roger Mortimer, son of Edmund and Philippa, daughter of Lionel, 

 Duke of Clarence, was born at Netherwood, so was also Robert Devereux, Earl of 

 Essex, the favourite and victim of Queen Elizabeth. From "The lives and letters 

 of the Devereux, Earls of Essex," little can be gathered respecting Netherwood, 

 beyond the fact that Robert, second Earl, wa.s born thereon November lOtb 1567. 

 Thornbury Camp may have been occupied by the earlier defenders of our 

 country against the Roman invasion under Ostorius Scapula, for the following 

 reasons :— It is situated in the line of route which would most probably be taken 

 by Caractacus during his retreat from the advancing victorious Roman legions, 

 after they had crossed the Severn, before falling back upon Croft Ambery,' 

 Wapley, and other camps, previous to his final overthrow at Gaer Caradoc, or at 

 Brandon, or at Coxwall Knoll, or at the Breidden Hills near Welshpool, or 

 wherever that event may have occurred. The inhabitants of these parts-the 

 Silures-are represented by Tacitus to have been " a people resolute and fierce by 

 nature, and rendered confident by the valour of Caractacus," who had risen to 

 pre-eminence as a general not easily subdued. The inhabitants of the sea coasts 

 of our island were liable to occasional invasions, and although those living in the 



