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By Maud E. Cunnington. 



Being an account of the excavations carried out by B. Howard Cunnington, F.S.A. Scot., 

 during July and August, 1907, 



The small eartliwork known as Oliver's Camp lies about two 

 miles to the north of Devizes. It is situate on one of the boldest 

 and most westerly spurs of the chalk escarpment of the North 

 Wiltshire downs, and commands a view over a wide extent of 

 country. 



To the south extends the long straight escarpment of Salisbury 

 Plain, to the westward the Mendips and the line of low hills 

 stretching away to Bath, a little to the north of which it is said 

 to be possible to catch a glimpse of the Bristol Channel, quite to 

 the north the view is cut off by a neighbouring hill, and to the 

 eastward lie the Marlborough Downs. Scarcely ten miles away 

 across the valley on the edge of Salisbury Plain, is Bratton Camp, 

 and about four miles to the northward, but shut out from view by 

 an intervening hill, is Oldbury Camp, perhaps the strongest hill 

 fort in Wiltshire. 2 



The camp, about three acres in extent, is on Crown property, 

 and with the permission of the proper authorities and the kind 

 acquiescence of the tenant, Mr. Leonard, excavations were under- 

 taken there this summer (1907) with the object of ascertaining, if 



' A portion of this paper was printed in Man for January, 1908, Vol. VIII., 

 No. I., as "Notes on Excavations at Oliver's Camp, near Devizes, Wilts," 

 with three small plans, two of which are here reproduced by the kindness of 

 the Eoyal Anthropological Institute. 



- The works at Barbury Castle are on all sides equal to the strongest of 

 those at Oldbury and are in a better state of preservation, but the precipitous 

 slopes of Oldbury and the greater natural advantages of the position there, 

 rendered an equal strength of entrenchments on all sides unnecessary. On 

 the whole, therefore, it would seem that these two fortresses must have been 

 of fairly equal strength. 



