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long been under cultivation, but its deep soil retains many- 

 interesting objects ; — drift pebbles are very mimerous, flints 

 cbipped by man are common, but very few flint implements are 

 found; several hand "mullers" have been met with, some 

 formed of Old Red Conglomerate have .the enclosed quartz 

 crystals worn and polished by friction. Whilst the worked 

 flints point to a very early occupation of this site, the numerous 

 coins found within the Camp and in its immediate neighbour- 

 hood prove its later occupation by the Romans. 



No. 29. — On Rodborough Hill, near Stroud, there are remains 

 of a strong earthwork, but cultivation has left only a short 

 length of it unlevelled ; in its neighbourhood are a very large 

 number of pit dwellings. This work and the two following 

 Camps, namely, Amberley and Minchinhampton, with their 

 accompanying pit dwellings, were figured and described in my 

 former paper on this subject. (See " Proceedings," Vol. V, 

 page 285.) 



No. 30. — The Amberley Camp Was formed by a slight mound 

 and ditch running on a curved line, with the ends resting on 

 the escarpment. A second, and probably later work, is of much 

 greater strength, and cuts the Camp into two divisions. 



No. 31. — The area of the Minchinhampton Camp is one of 

 the largest in Gloucestershire, its defensive works consisting of 

 a ditch and mound, run on a curved line, the ends of which are 

 more than a mile asunder, and enclose an area of some 600 acres. 

 On the eastern side it is further defended by three parallel lines 

 of earthworks. A slight mound connects the Amberley and 

 Minchinhampton Camps, and in the area thus enclosed are many 

 hundred pit dwellings. 



No. 32. — Above Frampton-Mansell there was an ancient Camp, 

 formed by two lines of earthworks running on a curved line, 

 enclosing a smaU area between them and the escarpment. It 

 was known as the " Green Ditches," from the circumstance that 

 the mounds and ditches remained untilled, but in a severe winter, 

 thirty-two years ago, the tenant-farmer set his men to level the 

 mounds, and so effectually was this accomplished, that scarcely 

 any trace of this Camp now remains. There is a local tradition 



