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of Inferior Oolite, btit it has been so removed by quarrying that 

 only a small portion of this stratum remains. The portion 

 which remains is at the eastei-n end of the hill, and the surface 

 of this is covered with pits, except at the extreme end of the 

 hill-top, which has been hollowed out, leaving a slight mound 

 as a breastwork on the south side. Some of the pits are 

 circular. At the top of the section formed by the present quarry 

 the soil is seen disturbed to the depth of three or four feet, and 

 the pits and their sides may there be seen in section. This 

 disturbed soil and rubble contains worked flints, some of them 

 flakes with sharp edges well preserved. This steep-sided hill 

 was evidently a station of a pit-dwelling people, and though 

 the defensive work — the parapet on the edge of the escarpment — 

 is very slight, it must rank as one of the ancient Camps of 

 Gloucestershire. 



No. 52.— The name on the Ordnance Map " BUzbury Farm," 

 three miles south-west of Berkeley, suggested the probability of 

 finding a Camp in that neighbourhood, and I am indebted to 

 Mr. J. H. Cooke for examining the locality. He finds that the 

 top of Blizbury Hill is fortified, and an area of rather more 

 than an acre in extent, and oval in form, has been defended by 

 having the already steep sides of the hill scarped, so as to foi-m 

 a steeper bank six or eight feet high ; to this enclosed area there 

 is an entrance protected by mounds. This Camp commands 

 a wide view of the surrounding low lands of the vale, and of the 

 opposite shore of the Severn. 



]s^o. 53. — At the south-east corner of the present limits of 

 Michaelwood Chase, on the extremity of a hill whose southern 

 slope runs down to the banks of the Berkeley Avon, near Damery 

 Brido-e, there is a small Camp, to which the attention of the 

 Club was called in 1871, by Mr. J. H. Cooke. It has an 

 irregular oval shape, about 160 yards long and 40 yards across ; 

 the defences are of peculiar construction, inasmuch as they 

 consist of a ditch running round the enclosed area on the slope, 

 just below the level part, and there are no mounds except such 

 as are left by the formation of the ditch, and thus these mounds 

 are on the outside of the ditch. 



