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neighbouring down, but to the next hill on the southern side and 

 to the down adjacent. Did Aubrey, Gibson, Hoare, Britton, and 

 others all fall into the same error, or has the name been transferred 

 from one locality to the other ? 



The spur or promontory of the downs on which the camp stands 

 runs nearly east and west, narrowing almost to a point at the 

 western end.^ The entrenchment consists of a single rampart and 

 ditch and does not enclose the whole promontory, but only about 

 three acres of it at the outermost or western end. The eastern 

 boundary of the camp is formed by an entrenchment thrown 

 across the hill connecting the entrenchments on the northern and 

 southern sides, but leaving the larger portion of the promontory 

 to the eastward open and undefended. The entrenchment follows 

 the line of the hill on the northern and southern sides, but it is not 

 carried out quite to the extreme verge of the hill at the western 

 extremity. It cuts across the point from north to south, and the 

 small piece of comparatively level ground thus left unenclosed is 

 occupied by two Bronze Age barrows. The escarpment of the hill 

 is very steep, and the site is thus rendered naturally a strong one 

 on every side except on that towards the east, where it abuts on 

 the open downs. As might be expected, on this side— left unpro- 

 tected by Nature— the entrenchments are strongest, and although 

 still only composed of a single rampart and ditch, the one is higher 

 and the other is deeper than on any other side. On this weak 

 eastern side it seems as though there ought to be an outer en- 

 trenchment drawn for additional security nearer to the neck of 

 the promontory, and although there is now no visible sign of such 

 entrenchment, it is possible that there may have been one origi- 

 nally. Many years of agricultural operations may have obliterated 

 a low bank and shallow ditch. This supposition seems to be some- 

 what justified by the fact that eastward of the present enclosure 

 there are some slight indications of the former extension of ram- 

 parts on the sides of the hill. 



' It will be seen that the promontory is not quite due east and west, but 

 for brevity's sake the simple points of the compass are given throughout. 



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