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and ditch, on a curved line, enclosing a small area. Outside 

 this Camp there is, on the east side, an earthwork — a slight 

 mound encloses an area 20 yards square, in the centre of which 

 there is a slight elevatioli eight yards square. 



No. 14. — The point of Crickley Hill is protected by earth- 

 works, a mound and ditch running across it on a slightly curved 

 line. The original entrances to Gloucestershire Camps, where 

 they are still to be traced, are usually simple openings through 

 the mounds, with the ditch nearly filled opposite the openings, 

 but at Ci'ickley Hill Camp the entrance has the bank and ditch 

 curved forward so as to protect and cover the opening. (See 

 Plate II, fig. 4). 



No. 15. — On Birdlip Hill, immediately above the large quar- 

 ries, the remains of an earthwork can be traced, although nearly 

 levelled by cultivation of the soil. It runs in a curved line, 

 enclosing on the point of the hill a small area of less than an 

 acre, but the protected part was once larger before the escarp- 

 ment was quarried for stone. 



No. 16. — On a hill-top, at a considerable elevation above 

 Colesbourne, are the remains of a Camp, locally known as 

 Norbury. It occupies a commanding situation, with views in 

 one direction of narrow, winding, wooded valleys, and in another 

 direction, across the valley of the Churn, to Penhill and the 

 neighbourhood of Birdlip and the Seven Springs. It was 

 enclosed by a single mound and ditch, only a small portion of 

 which has escaped destruction, though the outline of the whole 

 may still be traced to have been of an irregular form, crowning 

 the highest portion of the hill. 



No. 17. — One mile north of Northleach lies Norbury Camp ; 

 it occuj)ies the ridge of a hill ; the north side was defended by 

 a mound, the south side by an escarped work, the west end by 

 a mound and ditch, formed on a curved line, which is now 

 nearly obliterated ; the eastern defence appears to have disap- 

 peared. EuDDER states that it encloses an area of about 80 

 acres, and that the defences were already in part destroyed 

 in his day. 



No. 18. — Near Windrush is a circular Camp (see Plate II, 



