By Maud E. Ctbnnington. 



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up, and the site of the ditch forming thus a broad ledge or platform 

 running continuously round the camp serves as a pathway. 



Tlie plateau is unusually level, and the designers of the camp 

 took advantage of it by placing their entrenchments along its 

 verge on the natural and most effectual line of defence. To this 

 a singular exception is made at the western end where, as already 

 mentioned, the entrenchment is not carried out to the extremity 

 of the hill, but cuts across the point, leaving a triangular platform- 

 like piece of land unenclosed. By doing this the strength of the 

 defence on that side was considerably reduced, for not only does 

 it afford a comparatively level foot-hold for an enemy, but the 

 rampart being so far back it was impossible to see from it down 

 the sides of the hill, thus creating what in military parlance is 

 known as " dead " ground. The hill is so steep that there is also 

 much ground on the northern and southern sides that cannot be 

 seen from the top of the ramparts. 



X' DITCH EXfAVATEDroR— ri 

 O-HCARTH 5ITF 

 ®-]llTCH ?ROVED,N0TCl£AKDn«IlT0n 

 H-nOOrKN DEW POND 

 ^ = BARROWS k-^ll/i 



Fig. 2. Oliver's Camp, showing the position of the Sections cut. 



There was apparently one principal or regular entrance into the 

 camp, and that was nearly in the centre of the eastern rampart. 



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