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south east of Nailsworth, It incloses an area of about ten 

 acres in extent, and is formed by slight mounds and ditches 

 constructed on curved lines, as shown by the plan on Plate III., 

 fig. 4. In one pai-t are three parallel lines, two of which have 

 the ditches outside their mounds, whilst the third has the ditch 

 inside. Tlie outer line — a, b, c, d, — has an elevation of 4 feet 

 from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank, and may 

 possibly have been a later work added to strengthen the camp, 

 and so constructed that the area a, b, c, forms an independent 

 inclosure. The other lines of earthworks are very slight, and 

 the whole works could have presented little defence unless, as 

 was probably the case, they were strengthened by palisadings 

 of trees and branches. The site of this camp being covered by 

 a copse wood, I have been unable to find any flints within it on 

 the surface of the ground, and only a few by careful digging in 

 the ditches, but the arable fields immediately outside the hne 

 A, E, have yielded abundance, more than 1000 having there been 

 gathered up ,including several javeHn-points, scrapers, flakes,* 

 and two arrow-heads. 



One mile north of Nailsworth, on the hill-top immediately 

 above Amberley, is the earthwork marked b on the map. A 

 simple slight ditch and mound run on the curved hne a, b, c, d, 

 from the village of Littleworth to the escarpment above Spriggs- 

 well, including an area of about 50 acres in extent. Across this 

 area a much more important work has been constructed on the 

 line B, E. Half a mile eastward there is another series of 

 intrenchments, commencing at the head of a deep combe above 

 the village of the Box at p ; this work also runs in an irregular 

 curve on the Hne p, g, h, i, k, there it is protected by a parallel 

 line L, and this again by another parallel hne m, which terminates 

 at the head of a combe, the whole work inclosing more than a 

 square mile. At h there is a passage through the mound and 

 across the ditch, which a careful examination proved to have 

 been part of the original design. Between 'k and i some portion 



* Flakes found on tlie surfaces of fields are usually much broken, but on this 

 spot several whole flakes have been met with, one of which has an artificially 

 serrated edge, which will yet " saw " horn and bone. 



