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rortresses extending through the south-western part of Glou- 

 cestershire," communicated to the Society of Antiquaries, 1818. 

 The table assigns the class to which the form of each Camp may 

 be referred, and also gives the approximate size of the areas 

 enclosed, as it is more useful to have these particulars in one 

 view than scattered through the following pages. The term 

 *' Camp" is used as applying not only to its signification as a 

 place occupied for military purposes, but also as applying to a 

 defended position, used as a place of residence. 



No. 1. Saintbury. — On the hill immediately above Saintbury 

 Church there are traces of intrenchments, but they are only shal- 

 low ditches, extending along the brow of the hill on its north and 

 west sides. Rudder states that this work was called Castle-bank. 



No. 2. — One mile south of Saintbury are the remains of a 

 large Camp, situate on the hill-top above Willersey. Rudder 

 states that it enclosed 60 acres, but having now long been under 

 cultivation, the earthworks are scarcely to be traced, except on 

 the south side, where, near " Camp Farm," [they have been 

 preserved by having had a wall built along the top of the mound. 

 The defence consisted of a single mound and ditch, and the 

 mound is still six feet high on the Camp side, and twelve feet 

 high from the bottom of the ditch. 



No. 3. — Rudder mentions that on Shenborough Hill, above 

 Stanton, "there was a large Camp, fortified with double in- 

 trenchments." It has probably been destroyed by cultivation, 

 as it is not marked on the Ordnance Map. 



No. 3a. — A projecting point of the hill above Hayles is cut off 

 by earthworks ; this Camp was visited by the Club, July, 1868, 

 as mentioned in the " Transactions," Vol. IV, page 207. 



No. 4. — Rudder ijaentions that there is a small Camp at 

 Batsford, near Moreton-in-Marsh. I have not visited it, but 

 am informed that British and Roman coins, Roman pottery, 

 fibulae, &c., have been found within its area. 



No. 5. — Eubury is about a quarter of a mile east of Condicote, 

 and, as its name implies, is near a water supply. This camp is 

 on a projecting spur of the hill, having shallow valleys on three 

 sides ; one side has been protected by two lines of escarpment 



