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ground above the Severn it commands a most beautiful view of that 

 river, near its junction with the Wye, and retains much of the character 

 of ancient forest scenery. The park is well supplied with deer, and the 

 house is a newly erected mansion on a higher elevation than the old 

 one, which is situated a little below it and is of the time of James the 

 First. The ground is broken and undulated. There are the remains 

 of two camps, one is on a small hill just above the new mansion, the 

 summit of which is enclosed by an earthwork and ditch compassing an 

 area of about 180 yards in circumference. Where easiest of access there 

 is a second rampart and also indications of a third. A few ciins have 

 been found and fragments of pottery, also some building stones, and 

 the capital of a column. The interior of this camp has, it is believed, 

 never been carefully examined. It is not improbable that it was an 

 early British fortress before the coming of the Eomans, and occupied 

 by them after the original inhabitants had vacated it. It commands 

 one of the passages across the Severn, which formerly flowed much 

 nearer to it. The other hill, separated from it by a deep valley about 

 30 yards in width at the bottom, through which runs a clear stream 

 of water, contains a much larger area ; this is also sun'ounded by an 

 earthen rampart and ditch, which is doubled at the north-eastern 

 end where it is most accessible, as it is there united to the table-land 

 which gradually slopes upward. 



Within this fortified enclosure are the remains of the ancient Roman 

 villa, which has also been surrounded by a wall on the south side. 

 In 1 723 the walls were standing three feet above the ground. The 

 site and remains found have been described by the late owner, the 

 Eev. W. Hiley Bathurst, in a posthumous work, lately edited (1879) 

 by C. W. King, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, which 

 contains a plan of the buildings, and drawings of the remains dis- 

 covered, as well as descriptions of them, and is a very valuable 

 contribution to archteological science. It also contains a catalogue of 

 the coins found on the site, drawn up some years ago by Miss 

 Bathurst, a member of the family. The coins date from the reign of 

 Augustus to that of Honorius, and are preserved in a cabinet with the 

 other remains found on the spot. 



The building consists of three portions, which cover an area of 850 

 feet by 370. The ancient road may be traced leading into it on the 



