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fig. 19), formed by a single ditch and mound, and enclosing 

 three acres. The enclosed area is under cultivation, but the 

 earthworks have been carefully preserved ; the mound is about 

 four feet high, vfith a ditch about two feet deep on the 

 outside ; there was an entrance from the south. Though 

 nearly level with the surrounding land, it occupies the highest 

 spot of the neighbourhood, and commands extensive views, 

 including Barbury and Liddington Camps, on the distant 

 Wiltshire hills. 



No. 19.— On the point of Cooper's Hill an outlying portion 

 of the Great Oolite has been preserved from denudation by 

 having been thrown down by a fault. The value of this weather- 

 stone has led to its being so largely quarried that the earthworks 

 which once protected this point have been nearly removed, but 

 a slight mound can still be traced running along the brow of 

 the escarpment on the east side, and there are some traces of 

 larger mounds running across the hill. 



No. 20.— The Camp on the hill above Painsmck, known as 

 Kimsbury and Castle Godwin, occupies the highest spot of the 

 hill. It is defended on three sides by earthworks, whilst on 

 the fourth side the escarpment is very steep. The earthworks 

 on the south-west side consist of three high and steep mounds 

 with ditches, forming a very strong work, whilst on the remain- 

 ing two sides the defence consists of a single mound and ditch. 

 It is singular that the strongest earthworks were formed where 

 the natural strength of the position was the greatest— the hill- 

 side on the south-west being much steeper than on the south 

 side, and the surface of the ground outside the eastern defence 

 being nearly level with the enclosed area. 



No. 21. Plate II, fig. 5. — Haresfield Camp is formed by a 

 single ditch and mound, running in a curved line, cutting off 

 the projecting point of the hill ; through this line of defence 

 there are two well-marked entrances. From the point of the 

 hill thus enclosed a spur projects, known as Haresfield Beacon ; 

 the surface of this spur is at a lower level, and is cut off from 

 the upper Camp by a high and very steep-sided mound, and the 

 extreme point is defended by a series of slight mounds and 



