ANCIENT EARTH-WORK AT NORTON. 39 
tained within the ramparts being of a convenient 
size for agricultural purposes; and the ramparts 
themselves consequently useful as fences, of a very 
different kind from that for which they were origin- 
ally constructed. 
A foot-path from the church to the rectory leads 
us up a rather steep ascent to the south-west side of 
the camp or town, which it enters by a wicket-gate, 
and passing on to the north-west side, leaves it by a 
similar gate; the rampart being broken through at 
both points, another path, branching offimmediately 
within the entrenchment, leads to the north-eastern 
boundary, which it passes through by a gate now 
used for farming purposes. Whether these entrances 
existed in the original plan of the work or not, I 
have no means of discovering, but it seems more 
probable that they have been made in, comparatively 
speaking, modern times, for the convenience of the 
tenant and the neighbourhood in general. Besides 
these doubtful gates, four others are very evident. 
Asto those on the north, west, and south sides, there 
can be no doubt; the deep excavations which formed 
the avenues to them being still in existence, though 
now occupied by trees and brush wood; while that 
leading to the eastern entrance, though nearly 
obliterated by the plough, may still be traced 
through the fields in the direction of Staplegrove. 
The western gate appears to have had two entrances, 
the space between which was probably occupied by 
a fortification for the defence of what was evidently 
