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antiquity. Leaving the Camp at the north-west side and the 
three tumuli on the left, the members returned to Rodmead 
Farm, the botanists on the way finding several plants of a pretty 
white Cerastiwm and Orchis morio. After lunch, which was found 
spread out under the shade of some trees, had been duly discussed, 
Mr. Scarth collected the members and read them some notes 
_ which he had prepared on the Camp. 
This earthwork, he said, was situated about one and a half miles 
west from the classical ground of Stourhead, and at about thesame 
distance north of Mere, in the ancient country of the Belge. It is 
not far from the line of the Roman road which follows the Mendip 
Hills from the port on the river Axe, and continues on to Old Sarum, 
passing near this Camp at Maiden Bradley. Though not forming one of 
_ the camps of the Mendip Hills yet it is one of a line extending from 
Dolebury on Mendip to Old Sarum ir Wilts, and lies to the south of 
‘what was once probably the line of mineral traffic between Sorbiodunum 
and the port at Breandown. Probably existing before the Roman 
occupation, it is supposed, from apparent alteration in the ramparts, 
to have been strengthened in Saxon times. Alluding to the Camps 
of Dolebury, Maesbury, and Chesterblade, at the respective distances 
from each other of thirteen, six, and ten miles, as being pre-Roman, 
and yet as having been subsequently held by the Romans, he thought 
this also may have been the case with White Sheet, though Boman 
remains have not as yet been found there. This ancient fortress, the 
form of which, like all those of an early date, depended more upon the 
strength of its position than the skill of its defenders, contained an 
area of 15 acres, and probably marked the progress of the Belgic 
conquests and subsequent occupation. Details of its form having been 
given from a plan in Sir R. Colt Hoare’s “‘ Ancient Wiltshire,” Mr, 
Scarth seemed inclined to connect it with the excavations about 
three miles to the south-west, called Pen Pits, which, he said, seemed 
to have been quarried for ages to obtain the stone found there and 
used for millstones, &c. 
This gave an opportunity to the Secretary to introduce Mr. 
Kerslake who had joined the Society as a visitor, and to call upon 
him as the writer of an able pamphlet, entitled “A Primeval 
