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No. 25. -One mile north-east of Bibury there is, on the River 

 Colne, a place marked on the Ordnance Survey " Old Intrench- 

 ment;" it appears to occupy a bend of the river, but I have met 

 vfith no description of this work, nor could I obtain any infor- 

 mation of it by inquiries at Aldsworth and Bibury ; and time 

 failed me to visit it. 



No. 26.— One mile south-east of Aldsworth, near Ladborough 

 Farm, is a Camp locally known as the " Dean Camp." Its 

 shape is shown on Plate II, fig. 18 ; it is situate on a knoll 

 above the rivulet Leach, and the earthwork consists of a mound 

 in some parts, and in others of an escarped bank, without ditches. 

 It is now suffering by cultivation, and an intelligent old man 

 assured me that he remembered these earthworks to have been of 

 a much greater strength fifty years ago, when the land on which 

 they stood was let at an annual rent of thirty pence an acre, 

 and there was little inducement to encroach on these ancient 

 works. 



No. 27. — On Selsley Hill there is an earthwork, consisting 

 of a very slight mound and ditch, following an irregular Hne, 

 apparently in connection with a group of pit dwellings, which 

 are scattered over the hill top. There is another very slight 

 earthwork near the neck of the hill, where on one side lies Pen- 

 wood, and on the other side Bos-Pen, names which tell of a 

 British occupation of this locality. 



No. 28. Plate II, fig. 13. — TJley Bury is well known, and has 

 been frequently described. It occupies the whole area of the top 

 of a hill, detached from the adjoining range save at one point, and 

 the fortifications conform to the outline of the natural escarp- 

 ment ; they are of an unusual character, the natural steep sides 

 of the escarpment have been cut into, so as to form a terrace 

 about 40 feet feet wide all round the hill, and this terrace has a 

 sUght mound on the outer side, forming a breastwork. The 

 entrance from the north is strongly defended by a series of 

 mounds running across the narrow neck of land which connects 

 Uley Bury with the hills at that point. From the two other well 

 preserved entrances the roadways leading down into the valley 

 are still to be traced. The whole enclosed area of this Camp has 



