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a paper on “The Camp and Ancient British Town on the 
Midsummer and Hollybush Hills.” He referred to an earlier 
race inhabiting Wales, and whose existence has only lately been 
made known to us by the discovery of their relics. He men- 
tioned the notice of Great Britain by Herodotus and Aristotle, 
but he believed the Phcenicians traded here for metals long 
before the Greek historians wrote. 
The intercourse with foreigners naturally increased the 
wealth, civilization, and population. The people formed many 
tribes, and we learn from Cesar they were no mean enemies, 
being trained in the arts of war. This would probably arise 
from their frequent conflicts with each other, as they had no 
foreign foes to encounter. This constant state of turmoil 
involved the use of entrenched camps, or fortified towns, and 
the spot we are standing upon is one of them, large enough to 
contain a whole tribe. 
To treat such positions as this, Thornbury, Walls Hill, 
and many places in Herefordshire as merely military camps, is 
a great error—they were also places of refuge for the whole 
people. They were probably strengthened by stockades of 
timber, large gates guarding the entrances, the post holes of 
which are now traceable. 
To assign a date to this Camp or Town, or say by which of 
the past races it was constructed, is at present impossible, but 
there are good reasons to believe that future exploration may 
throw much light upon the subject. 
The length of the Camp is 2,000 feet, and its cireumference 
5,700 feet. The site of the old British Town, lying in the 
hollow between the hills, and over-lapp2d and protected by the 
Camp, is about 1.200 feet. 
The height of the Midsummer Hill is 958 feet. It has on 
the Eastern side ten or eleven terraces, whereon as many as 
244 hut hollows are visible. 
Others may be seen on the Hollybush Hill and in the hollow 
between the two eminences. There is water here, rising from 
two springs, which was used by the people, and stored in four 
different tanks connected with each other. 
