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No. 45 g. — One mile east of Bury is Mount Sylla, a point of 

 a hill similarly flanked, by valleys and defended by intrench- 

 ments cutting it off from the plateau. 



No. 45 h. — At Castle Combe there is a fortified position, of 

 which a plan and description are given in the "History of Castle 

 Combe," by G. Poulett Sceope, Esq. Mr. Scrope says it has 

 " strong defences of earthworks, bearing very much the appear- 

 ance of a British intrenched camp. It was seated on the brow 

 of a steep hill, which juts out into the valley about a quarter of 

 a mile above the town towards the north-west. The hill is 

 tongue-shaped, abruptly sloping on three sides, and connected 

 on the fourth with the flat but high level of the surrounding 

 country. The summit, which occupies about eight acres, is 

 surrounded by a deep ditch and mound. Three other similar 

 trenchesj cutting straight across the longer axis of the oblong 

 area thus enclosed, divide it into four unequal compartments, 

 one within the other. In the last, and of course strongest 

 of these inclosures, towards the extreme point of the hill, 

 stand the meagre remains of the Castle of Combe. The earth- 

 works were probably constructed at an earlier period than the 

 Castle." 



No. 45 i. — ^Near Great Sherston, six miles north of Castle- 

 Combe, there are the remains of a Camp. 



No. 45 k. — One mile or so east of the last-mentioned is the 

 station on the Foss Way known as " White Walls." 



No. 451.— To the east of "White Walls" lies Malmesbury, 

 this site, with its steep hill nearly surrounded by the river 

 Avon, was in all probability a fortified position at a very 

 early date. 



No. 45m. — ^Four miles to the east of Stow-on-the-Wold is a 

 remarkable work, which, though outside the boundary of our 

 county, must not be omitted as a Cotteswold Camp ; it is situate 

 on a hill above Chastleton, on the level plateau, and consists of a 

 single mound enclosing an oval or nearly circular area of about 

 12 acres. The mound is a fine work, some 45 feet wide at its 

 base and 12 feet high, and without a ditch; there are entrances 

 from the east and from the west. This Camp has a striking 

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