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Barrows in the neighbourhood of Cheltenham, of which he 
mentioned the following: (1) Crippetts. (2) West Tump. (3) Near 
Notgrove. (4) On the Birdlip and Stroud Road near Througham. 
(5) Jack Barrow. (6) Belas Knapp near Winchcomb. 
Among the Round Barrows are the following : (1) Two above 
the Crippetts. (2) In the copse above the Balloon Inn, on the left 
hand side of the Birdlip Road. (3) Hungry Field at West Tump. 
The Belas Knapp Barrow is in a wood called Humbley How, 
or Humble Bee How Wood beyond Belas Knapp. 
The road from Gloucester to Cirencester isa British Road. 
The present road differs from the Ancient track at Birdlip, where 
the old one instead of turning to the right and down a steep hill to 
Witcomb, turned to the left opposite what is now the Temperance 
Hotel, and through the present Lodge Gates down an easy slope 
through Witcomb Woods, where an old track shows the remains of 
the former way. 
Among the Ancient Roads about here, may be mentioned 
1. The Salt way from Droitwitch to the South Coast. 
2. Western Track way from Carlisle to the South Coast passing 
through Tewkesbury and Coomb Hill. 
3. The Duggild way. 
Every camp except two near Dowdeswell within twenty miles 
of Cheltenham are British though occupied by the Romans. 
The Leckhampton Hill camp has the ramparts composed of 
burnt stone and twelve feet high, while the one on the top of 
Crickley Hill has the ramparts made of the same material but 
higher than Leckhampton Hill Camp. 
Among the Camps near here are: (1) Birdlip, (2) Cooper’s 
Hill with an area of 300 acres, (3) Leckhampton Hill, (4) Crickley, 
(5) Kinsbury, near Painswick, (6)T'wo Roman Camps at Dowdeswell, 
(7) Above the reservoirs near Mr. Agg’s house, Battledown, (8) 
Cleeve Cloud, (9) Nottingham Hill, (10) Charlton Abbotts, (11) 
Beckbury. 
Tacitus says, that when Aulus Plautius conquered the British 
in 45 A.D. he built a line of forts from the River Antona to the 
River Sabrina. 
The Antona has been proved to be the River Nen, but an ob- 
jection was raised against this as it was said there were no forts in 
that direction. However Mr. Witts a few years ago traced the forts 
from Bristol to the Wash. All these forts are within signalling 
distance of each other. 
