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bank in the Mead Field (1) further to the west that seems to be 
a prolongation of the same line. The dimensions of both 
these banks were suggestive of a road with a surface for 
traffic of about 9g feet. In both of them was found a layer of 
large stones that might conceivably have been the bottom 
layer of a Roman road, but the evidence on the whole pointed 
to the stones having been part of an ancient dyke or bank. 
If this is the case, these banks may quite well have been part 
of some defence of an early settlement at Weston. This part 
of our investigations has therefore added no fresh evidence to 
the line of the road. But there are other indications which 
we hope to test and to report on at a later date. 
EXPLORATIONS ON LANSDOWN. 
A PossIBLE ROMAN ROAD AND THE SO-CALLED ROMAN CAMP. 
Due west of the Grand Stand on the North Stoke Down 
there is a well-defined camp, generally called the British Camp 
of the type common in the Cotswolds, a V-shaped promontory 
or tongue of land, defended on two sides by a natural scarp, and 
on the side of the level down by a strong ditch and bank. 
Inside this camp there are two tumuli, and a bank runs 
through it from west to east. This bank was examined by a 
series of trenches. 
The first trench, of which the results were fairly typical, (2) 
was dug 66 feet west of the gate leading on to the open down, 
the second 300 feet further to the west, and the third 400 
feet still further to the west. Under the turf were found a 
layer of flat stones averaging about 6 inches across. Beneath 
this was a layer of rough stones packed closely together, and 
under this was a third layer of large flat stones, of which a 
fairly typical example measured 14 by 18 by 3 inches. 
The width of the top layer was g feet, the second layer was 
spread out to about 12 feet, and the lower layer was on the 
whole rather wider, reaching in the third trench to about 20 
feet. The total depth of the bed was about 1g inches. 
Trenches 2 and 3 showed the same results except that in 
No. 2 the stones on the S. edge of road are packed nearly 
vertically. 
1 See Section A. 2 See Section B. 

