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with a platform between them, the other side of the spnr is 

 protected by a mound. On the north a steep hill overlooks this 

 camp, and in the narrow valley between this hill and that on 

 which the Camp stands an earthwork has been thrown up — a 

 mound 18 feet wide at its base, and 10 feet high, without ditches, 

 (See Section Plate III, fig. 32.) This mound terminates 

 abruptly at both ends, without any apparent defence to prevent 

 an attacking force from marching round it ; and this is one 

 instance, amongst many in our ancient earthworks, where it is 

 difficult to see the value of such defensive lines, unless the 

 combatants are believed to have been ignorant of military 

 tactics, or we suppose that these mounds were accompanied by 

 stockades extending beyond the earthworks, and that all traces 

 of these stockades have disappeared. 



No. 6. Condicote Camp (Plate II, fig. 8). — This is a circular 

 Camp, formed by a single mound and ditch ; it has been partly 

 destroyed by the erection of some of the houses of the village 

 and by roadways. This Camp was probably formed in this 

 situation in consequence of the occui-rence here of a spring of 

 water ; all around are wild waterless " wolds," so destitute of 

 natural sources of water that the farms are provided with the 

 singular " dew-pools" constructed above the level of the surfaces 

 of the fields, and fed by condensation from the atmosphere ; but 

 at Condicote a fault has occurred, by which the Puller's Earth 

 Clay is brought near the surface, and throws out a spring of 

 water, the value of which, in this arid district, was attested by 

 the erection over it of a mediseval cross. 



About two miles north of Condicote there is marked on the 

 Ordnance Map " Camp Ground." I am not aware that any 

 remains of a Camp are left ; but it is probable, from this name 

 and the situation, that there was one in that locality. 



No. 7. — Icomb Camp occupied the termination of a range of 

 hills two miles south of Stow-on-the-Wold. Icomb is a detached 

 portion of Worcestershire, and Dr. Nash, in his history of that 

 county, says of this camp — " It has a single ditch, which is in 

 many places ploughed down." At the present day no traces of 

 earthworks remain. 



