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Buttington Tump is 60 feet long, 27 feet wide at its widest 

 part, and 10 feet higli at its highest point ; it is oval in form, 

 the broadest and highest portion is at the east end, and it has 

 the appearance of being an oval Tumulus ; I am informed that 

 it was opened by G. F. Orsieeod, Esq., and urns and coins taken 

 from it, but it is possible my informant is mistaken on this point. 

 The site of Sedbui-y Park was occupied by the Romans, the late 

 Dr. Ormerod discovered there evidences of this occupation, 

 consisting of pottery, such as amphorae and mortarj.a of ordinary 

 Roman ware, and also glazed red Samian, with the stamps of 

 the makers. He also discovered in the park a Roman kiln for 

 the manufacture of pottery. Buttington Tump in its outline 

 and dimensions resembles a Roman Tumulus, and not the large 

 oval Tumuli constructed by the earlier occupiers of this county. 



No. 78. — At Beachley Green, half a mile south of the Sedbury 

 lines, the ground rises into a slight elevation. Rudder states 

 that there were earthworks here in his day, and two fields lying 

 on the slope between this higher ground and the Wye are still 

 known as the Upper and Lower Bulwarks. 



The earthworks of the Forest of Dean, taken apart from those 

 on the eastern side of the Severn, are vory interesting ; there 

 are the three promontories of Sjonond's Yat, Lancaut, and 

 Beachley, cut off by intrenchments, which, beside forming 

 military defences, so protect those three large areas that they 

 may well have served as cattle enclosures. The remaining seven 

 or eight Camps are, on the other hand, remarkable for their 

 very small size. As regards the w jrk ascribed to King Offa, all 

 the efforts of Antiquaries to trace it as a continuous line have 

 left it a fragmentary work, even when such positions as Symond's 

 Yat and Lancaut have been adopted as portions. 



The foregoing is probably not a complete list of the ancient 

 Camps of Gloucestershire, there may be some remains of earth- 

 works so slight as to have escaped notice, and others may still 

 be hidden in woods or by hedgerows ; the tradition of some has 

 come down to us only in the names of places, as for instance, at 

 the village " Camp," two mih?s north of Bisley, where there are 

 remains of several Tumuli, but none of embankments, though 



