WORLE CAMP. 71 
in breadth, and includes a view of not less than thirty 
churches from its elevated summit; the western end pro- 
jects into the Bristol Channel above the town of Weston, 
and is formed into one of the most remarkable fortifications 
in England. The length of the space enclosed from the 
inner rampart on the east, to the point of the hill on the 
west, is about a quarter of a mile, and the medium breadth 
is about eighty yards, making an area, as supposed, of 
fifteen or twenty acres.. On approaching the camp from 
the east, about a quarter of a mile distant from it, is a 
barrow of loose stones, five feet high and fifteen feet in 
diameter, which appears not to have been disturbed since 
its formation. Before arriving at the outer rampart, seven 
ditches are sunk across the ridge of the hill, out of which 
it is probable that the stones were drawn which formed the 
ramparts, besides which, the whole ground, for a consider- 
able distance in front of the camp, is still covered with loose 
stones. There are two ramparts, about fifteen feet high 
from the bottom of the ditch, composed entirely of stones 
loosely placed, without a blade of grass or plant of any kind; 
these ramparts, with their corresponding ditches, cross the 
hill in a part where it is about a hundred yards broad, and 
then, turning westward, are continued as far as the security 
ofthe station required. Those on the north are soon rendered 
unnecessary by the rock, which is there precipitous ; those 
on the south are gradually blended into the natural decli- 
vity of the hill, which is nearly as steep as the rampart 
itself, and like it is composed of loose stones. There is no 
indication of any building in the area, except a square 
excavation about five feet deep and seven feet square, the 
sides of which are built with loose stones without mortar. 
It has the appearance of the mouth of a large square well, 
which might have been filled up when the place was aban- 
