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near Stow-on-the-Wold, with an area of eight acres — all 

 these camps are probably the sites of British towns, just 

 as Cirencester to-day is the modern representative of the 

 ancient town of the Boduni. 



(2) Some of the escarpment camps bear evidence of 

 successive British and Roman occupation. In the Nott- 

 ingham Hill Camp, in 1863, Mr Witts records, during 

 some excavations the original mound of the Britons and 

 the superstructure erected by the Romans were laid 

 bare.* The camp on Cleeve Hill was unquestionablv 

 occupied by the Romans, and it is probable that a long 

 line of earthworks to the north of the camp was the 

 boundary of a pre-historic settlement. On Leckhampton 

 Hill there is a somewhat similar entrenchment outside 

 the camp, and inside this area a large number of flint 

 arrow-heads have been found ; while the fact recorded by 

 Buckman and Newmarch that in 1850 a true Roman well 

 was still existing in the centre of the camp, is of itself 

 sufficient evidence that the camp was occupied by the 

 Romans. f 



(3) Ancient British track-ways, says Prebendary Scarth, 

 may be traced by their being " often worn into deep 

 " hollows, especially near the camps and places of occupa- 

 "tion."t The camps at Nottingham Hill, Cleeve Hill, 

 Hewlett's Hill, Dowdeswell, and Leckhampton, are 

 approached from the valley by roads sunk below the level 

 of the adjoining land, in some cases to the depth of 

 several feet. Whether the hollows are due to wear or 

 to their having been so constructed to ease the gradient is 

 an open question. 



(4) Old maps of the county show that some roads now 

 almost disused were formerly important highways. A 



* " Arclireological Handbook of Gloucestershire," p. 13. 

 T "Roman Remains at Corinium," p. 5. 

 J "Roman Britain," p. 18. 



