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There seems very little doubt that this was a Roman road, 
and it led apparently westward in the direction of the camp 
at Bitton. We were entirely unable to trace its course east- 
ward outside the camp field. It leads directly towards an 
earthwork that is marked in the Ordnance Survey map as a 
Roman camp. This work is about 300 yards west of the 
Grand Stand. It is roughly rectangular, measuring 430 feet 
by 170. All the corners, except the north-west one, are 
roughly rounded. The north-west wall is rather irregular, 
the others are regular, and consist of a mound about 2 feet 
high and 4 feet across. There is a shallow ditch on all the 
sides except the north-western one. The only gate is on the 
south-west side. 
A diagonal trench was cut across the interior of this work, 
and the wall was also cut. A trench was also cut in the 
ditch parallel with the wall to the south-west of the gate. 
The naturally shattered surface of the rock was in all places 
met with from 6 inches to 1 foot under the turf, and nothing 
that could throw any light on the date of construction was 
found except one small flint flake. 
A bank leads up to the gate in a way that is very sugges- 
tive of a road. We cut this also, but the result showed 
clearly that it was a dyke or wall, and certainly not a road. 
There is therefore no evidence at present to lead us to con- 
clude that this work was Roman in its origin. One thing, 
however, is clear, that if it was a Roman camp it represents 
only half of the original work. There are some traces of banks 
outside the work that suggest the possibility of the north- 
western half having been obliterated, but they are too in- 
determinate to justify the definite adoption of this theory. 
If this was the case the present north-west wall would have 
been a possible roadway, and might have been a continuation 
of the road already described in the North Stoke Camp. The 
total width of the work would have been about 340 feet, a 
measurement that would have been in suitable proportion to 
the length. It is proposed to further test this theory at a 
later date. 
Some other curiously irregular mounds to the north of 
this work were examined, but we were unable to determine 
their nature. On the whole they seem to be the remains of a 
small group of barrows that had been disturbed and ploughed 
down. 
