ON ANCIENT CAMPS AND EARTHWORKS. 109 
Certain it is that this is the point from which the settle- 
ment would be most assailable. Can this be the point 
from whence these bold subjugators of our island forced 
their way into this stronghold ? Certainly these traces of 
man’s handy-work in past times suggest stirring thoughts, 
and waken lively conjeetures! We have the fosse road 
running at no very great distance from this point. 
Upon the Ordnance Survey the Wansdyke is marked as 
erossing the down from this camp to the point where the 
road up Bathwick-hill falls into the road from Widcombe 
which runs on to the Brass-knocker-hill, and so joins the 
Warminster road. There are some faint traces of lines 
running in this direction, but not distinct enough to enable 
us to form any correct idea ; they appear to me to be 
nothing beyond the remains of old track-ways leading to 
the camp. Nor are there now any traces of Wansdyke 
which can be discerned at the back of Prior-Park, which 
are said to have formerly existed, the plough seems so 
thorougshly to have done its work in levelling every vestige 
of this aneient boundary. Not so a little beyond the vil- 
lage of Combe Down, at a place called Cross Keys, where 
the mound is very distinctly to be traced, and carries a 
wall on the top of it, stretching towards the turnpike at 
Burnt House. 
From hence it passes through Beech Wood to the 
village of English Combe, where it is very apparent, and 
can be examined with great facılity. Just beyond the 
line of Wansdyke, where it passes Burnt House, a camp 
called Berewyke Camp is said to have existed ; but no 
trace of it now remains, unless it be a portion of the 
earthen agger. I have carefully examined the spot several 
times, but cannot satisfy myself as to the present exist- 
ence of the camp, although it is mentioned by the historians 
