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The following eleven Camps are not within the limits of 

 Gloucestershire, but as they are on the Cotteswold Hills they 

 are described to complete the review of the Cotteswold Camps. 



No. 45 b. — A quarter of a mile south-west of the Granville 

 Monument there is marked on the Ordnance Survey, as an 

 " Ancient Camp," a very singular work. Some seven or eight 

 acres of the hill top are covered with mounds 10 feet to 15 feet 

 high, with narrow hollows between them. These mounds form. 

 a labyrinth or maze, in some respects resembling " Coles-pits,'* 

 near Faringdon, but there the depressions are deeper and the 

 mounds far larger ; but there is in both instances the same Avant 

 of plan, and a like difficulty in explaining the object for which 

 they were constructed. In our Cotteswold example the mounds 

 are too regular to have been the spoil-banks formed in quarrying 

 for stone ; they are in some parts of considerable length, and 

 are so connected that the tops can be walked on for a long way 

 without having to cross any of the hollows. There is no mound 

 or ditch enclosing this singular maze of earthworks. If this 

 area was covered with trees, and the works stockaded, they 

 may have formed a well sheltered and defensible site for a large 

 community to dwell on. 



No. 45 c. — A projection of Lansdown above the village of 

 North Stoke has been fortified by earthworks, formed on a 

 slightly curved line cutting off the point, (see fig. 16, Plate II.) 

 A mound and ditch run from north to south, the ends termi- 

 nating at the escarpments where the sides of the hill are very 

 steep. About the middle of this defensive line there is an 

 entrance to the Camp, and on the south side of this entrance a 

 second bank has been thrown up on the east side of the ditch ; 

 the portion of the defensive works north of the entrance has not 

 a mound outside the ditch. A slightly raised roadway is trace- 

 able from the entrance leading towards the point of the hill, 

 and on either side of this roadway there is a mound about 

 25 feet by 9 feet in size, and about 18 inches high, surrounded 

 by a slight ditch. These two mounds are very similar to some 

 on Minchinhampton Common. 



No. 45 d. — Three hundred paces from the last-mentioned 



