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and a magnificent cedar of Lebanon, to the foot of Hamildon 
hill. Gradually ascending the sloping ground after crossing the 
stream of the Iwerne (pronounced Eworne, or Youworne), fine 
views of the surrounding country opened out anticipations of the 
magnificent panorama seen from the top; Lord Wolverton’s 
modern house standing out conspicuously on the right, and the 
villages of Iwerne Minster and Courtney nestling snugly in the 
valley below. Before reaching the main entrance to the camp on 
the south-east several low defensive lines were crossed, and then 
came the chief outworks, consisting of four high ramparts with 
their ditches, the interior one the highest of all. Winding their 
way in through these, a sloping way was seen leading off to the 
north-east, down the hill, under cover of the ramparts, supposed 
to be the water-way for the defenders, as a well of water either 
existed, or was known to have existed, below. Crossing another 
defence, which appears either to have divided the original camp, 
some three-quarters of a mile long, into two parts, or else 
indicated the presence of alater portion subsequently constructed, 
the highest point of the interior was reached—some 500 feet 
above sea level. Standing here with the ‘“Giant’s Grave” (a 
long barrow in front), with Mount Silver on the left, hiding the 
Quantocks, a wide extent of country stretched away to the 
horizon ; the Vale of Blackmore, formerly called the Forest of 
White Hart, Melbury, Shaftesbury, with the great Chalk Down 
range to the north-east ; then at the back, looking in the direction 
of Wimborne, the white cliffs of the Isle of Wight were even 
‘ visible in the far horizon. All these places were pointed out by 
Sir Talbot Baker. Whilst just below to the north-west, at the 
village of Child Okeford, he told us once dwelt William Kethe, 
versifier of the 100th Psalm (O.V.) But as to the camp, who 
' made it? Extracts were read from Coker—“ Survey of Dorset” 
_ —-written c. 1615, who inclines to the belief that it was the work. 
_ of the Britons, and from the Magna Britannia, giving a description 
of it, and attributing it to the Danes; but since that time more 
