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camp, guarded by a locked gate and janitress. Permission 
having been previously obtained from Mr. Wentworth Bennett 
of N. Cadbury, and the visitors’ book duly signed, the members 
were permitted to wander at their own sweet will, soon losing their 
way amid a maze of underwood and nettles filling the bottom of 
the ditch on the N. side. Owing to these obstacles, and the 
steepness of the scarped sides, it was necessary to beat a retreat, 
and reach the top by a more easy way. Crossing the level 
platform of the hill to its N.W. corner, a magnificent prospect 
was spread out, extending from the Mendips on one side, round 
by the Quantocks to the distant Blackdown hulls of Devonshire 
on the other, with a richly wooded plain at their feet, amid the 
foliage of which many church towers stood picturesquely out, the 
Torr of Glaston being prominent amongst the others. A halt 
was called at this point, whilst the advent of a certain member 
was anxiously expected, to whom had been entrusted (in the 
unfortunate absence of the Rey. J. E. Bennett) a paper written 
by the latter on Cadbury Castle. The nettles and the deep ditch 
were, alas! the sad cause of detaining the paper and its custodian, and 
the Secretary was, therefore, under the necessity of giving a short 
description of the camp in their absence. After alluding to a former 
visit of this Club to the neighbourhood, now more than 20 years 
ago (1868), he said that the growth of the underwood had been such 
in the meantime as to render the identification of the different points 
very difficult, and he much regretted the absence of the Rector 
of 8. Cadbury, who would have been such an admirable guide to 
the party, and who knew more about the Camp than anyone else. 
Before, however, taking up the later history, which Mr. Bennett 
had recently so admirably worked out, he would call their atten- 
tion to the very great strength of the position. In those early 
times before history was writ there was not any doubt that this 
hill was occupied by the Neolithic folk. With its fourfold ditch 
and rampart enclosing a level space on the top of some 20 acres in 
extent, it was probably merely a military stronghold, to which 
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