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appearance, with its steep-sided liig-li bank, covered with trees 

 and thorns, contrasting strongly with the neat and trim culti- 

 vated lands around it and within its area. 



Having briefly described the ancient Camps of the Cotteswold 

 Hills, I will proceed to enumerate those found between the 

 Cotteswolds and the rivers Severn and the Avons. 



No. 46. — At the north of our county, a few miles south of 

 Stratford-on-Avon, is a fine isolated hill, on one side of which 

 lies the village of Meon. Meon Hill may be visited by taking 

 rail to Long Marston Station, whence a walk of two miles will 

 lead to the summit ; here a magnificent view is a reward for a 

 somewhat fatiguing ascent, the finely cultivated lands of War- 

 wickshire, Gloucestershire, and Worcestershire are spread out, 

 map-like, far below, the fine bold Eredon Hill and the more 

 distant Malverns are seen to the west, whilst on the south lie 

 the picturesque Mickleton Hills, and the sterner Cotteswolds 

 above Saintbury and Broadway. The summit of Meon Hill 

 has been fortified as a Camp, and the earthworks can still be 

 clearly traced on the south and west sides ; but the whole hill- 

 top has been under cultivation, and the works have sufi'ered in 

 consequence. I can find no remains of earthworks on the other 

 sides, but the plough has probably obliterated mounds on the 

 east, whilst the north side has a very steep bank below the 

 escarpment. The earthworks have a very irregular outline, 

 conforming in bold curved lines to the edge of the escarpment. 

 Even the mounds which remain appear to have been ploughed 

 over, except at the north-west angle, where, fortunately, for 

 about 40 feet in length they have escaped, and from this portion 

 their plan can be seen. As at TJley Bury, there is here also only 

 a very slight mound on the edge of the escarpment ; below the 

 edge of the hill, the slope has been artificially scarped, giving a 

 very steep bank, 18 feet high from the bottom of the ditch; 

 then follows a steep-sided mound eight feet high, and then a 

 third mound five feet high. 



No. 47. — Bredon Hill, so conspicuous in the landscape at the 

 north of our county, ha,s on its highest part a fine Camp, formed 

 on the almost precipitous brow of the hill by two lines of 



