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of the intrenchments have been destroyed in the construction 

 of a park and a turnpike road. 



To the north-west of Amberley Camp, at a distance of less 

 than two miles, is Selsley Hill, on which there is an earthwork 

 at D. There a very slight mound and ditch, o, p, form an 

 irregular line, and in the area between this and the hiU sides 

 can be counted some 130 of those depressions in the surface 

 which are believed to have been the floors of human habitations. 

 As pointed out by the Eev. A. S. Page, not one of these pits is 

 found outside the line of defence formed by the mound and 

 ditch. To picture out the appearance of this work when 

 occupied by its constructors, we may suppose, erected over each 

 of these depressions, huts formed of branches and trees, and 

 thatched, whilst the protecting momid would be strengthened 

 by a palisading of stakes or branches. 



The reqiiirements of the occupiers of the camp on Selsley Hill 

 did not lead them either to extend it beyond its original 

 dimensions, or to strengthen it by the addition of other lines of 

 defence, but with the Amberley Camp (b) it was otherwise. 

 The series of entrenchments already mentioned as extending 

 for two miles eastward of the slight work, a, b, c, d, are of the 

 same character and strength as the line b e, and vnth that 

 present a series of five parallel lines of defence, the ditches 

 being in all cases on the eastern sides of the mounds. Pit- 

 dwellings are found in great numbers, not only in the Amberly 

 Camp, but in the area bounded by tlie lines c, g, f ; altogether 

 700 have been counted, and it would be probably no exaggeration 

 to say that 300 more have been obliterated by the opening of 

 quarries and the construction of roads. A slight mound may be 

 traced on the line c, g, and it is noteworthy that scarcely any 

 pits have been made to the north of the line a, c, g. The 

 dwellings were most numerous near the escarpment, which may 

 be accounted for not only from the greater shelter this part 

 enjoyed from cold "winds, but also from its proximity to fine 

 springs of water thrown out by the Fuller's Earth at the base 

 of the escarpment. 



On Rodborough Hill, one mile north of the Amberley Camp, 



