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Tuesday May 24th, for White Sheet Castle. Two breaks received 
the party at Frome Station, and rattled away through pleasant 
hedgerows and verdant woodlands to Maiden Bradley. Owing to 
the lateness of the spring the trees had hardly put forth their 
wealth of foliage, and the ash was seen far behind the oak, thus 
according to one interpretation of the old saying, indicating a wet 
summer. The first sign of the nearness of the Chalk downs was 
seen where the road after passing Maiden Bradley and leaving 
the Green Sand formation cuts through an outlier of the Chalk, 
when suddenly the whole expanse of rolling hills lies before you, 
chequered as they were with the flying shadows of the fleecy 
clouds. Seeking the accommodation for the horses afforded by 
the substantially-built outhouses of Rodmead Farm, the members, 
under the guidance of their Vice-President (Mr. Scarth), breasted 
the steep rise of Rodmead Hill in quest of the Camp ; not such 
an easy thing to find except by those well acquainted with the 
locality. After a pleasant and breezy walk, just as the energies 
of some began to flag, the Vice-President was seen in the far 
distance, standing out clearly marked against the sky-line ; the 
Camp was found and he was in possession of the outer rampart. 
Time having been granted for the stragglers to come up and for 
the enjoyment of the magnificent view over the vale of Blackmore, 
the three outer ramparts were followed, their entrances pointed 
out, and the attention of those present drawn to their semi-lunar 
form and the irregularity of their structure. Crossing over the 
inner enclosures the south side was seen to be formed by the 
precipitous face of the down, acting on this side as a defence in 
itself, and requiring a very slight rampart, so that the form of 
the Camp, as is customary in all these pre-Roman Camps, was 
regulated by the shape of the hill, the strongest entrenchments 
being drawn across as defences on that side of the hill (in this 
case the north) which was most open to attack. The circular 
enclosure near the centre of the Camp appears to have been made 
in recent times for a clump of trees, and not to be of any 
