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Oliver's Camp, Devizes. 



The interior of the camp is remarkably level, and to a person 

 standing in it no rampart rises perceptibly except just at the 

 corners and towards the east where the rampart separates it from 

 the open downs. The edge of the hill is scarped round the camp, 



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Fig. 1. Plan of Camp and surroundings, 

 and this is deeper on the southern than on the northern side. The 

 embankment or slight rampart above the scarping is also higher 

 on the south side, but is so placed on the sloping verge of the 

 plateau that, except at the angles, it scarcely rises above the in- 

 terior level of the camp. On the south side from the top of the 

 embankment to the top of the ditch is 12ft., and the ditch is 9ft.deep; 

 while on the north side the embankment is 8ft. high and the ditch 

 is 6ft. deep. At the south-east and south-west corners the rampart 

 is somewhat heightened, but the other two corners do not now 

 show any such strengthening.^ The ditch is now entirely filled 



' Aubrey noticed this strengthening at the angles: " At the angles the 

 .tumps are higher . . . and bigger than the rest of the rampire." ilfiS. Co^/. 



