ON ANCIENT CAMPS AND EARTHWORKS. 119 
I know is a controverted point, but I am inclined to think 
that Little Salisbury, or Sulisbury, is the first in that line, 
and this hill was probably the seat of the worship of the 
Goddess Sul, whose name is found in so many altars dug 
upin Bath. The late Mr. Skinner, of Camerton, has en- 
deavoured to identify the Wansdyke with the vallum of Os- 
torius, and Mr. Phelps, in his History of Somerset, inserts a 
long dissertation, in which Mr. Skinner endeavours to 
identify Camerton with Camalodunum, which is generally 
supposed to be Colchester in Essex, or Lexden near to 
Colchester. The idea of this vallum he bases upon the 
words of Tacitus, which have led to so much conjecture 
and such learned inquiry. Ostorius, previous to his cam- 
paign against the Silures, or inhabitants of South Wales, 
drew a chain of forts between the Severn and the Avon, 
“ cinetosque castıis, sabrinam et avonam fluvios cohibere 
parat.” 
Many suppose that the Avon here mentioned is the river 
Nen which flows through Northamptonshire, and between 
the counties of Cambridge and Lincoln, and then empties 
itself into the Wash. The name of this river, however, 
does not warrant the supposition, or, if the conjeceture 
be true, it has wholly changed... Mr. Skinner, however, 
regards the following camps as guarding the conquests of 
the Romans up to the time of Ostorius :— 
1. Clifton camp, on Durdham Down, 
2. Stokesleigh, on Leigh Down opposite, beyond Clifton, 
3. Borough Walls, contiguous to it, 
4. Maes Knoll, which could communicate with Borough 
Walls and the heights in Wales, 
5. Stantonbury camp. 
I am inclined to think that these camps, if carefully ex- 
amined, will give little indication of Roman occupation. 
