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to be found occasionally among the irregular works, we 
may conclude that they were not permanently occupied as 
a chain of forts by the Romans. 
Leaving, however, this difhcult subject, and reverting to 
the camps around Bath: we have on Lansdown the re- 
mains of an ancient British camp formed similar to that of 
Maes Knoll (being cut off from the other portion of the 
hill by a deep fosse and agger), and so placed as to com- 
municate by signal with it and Stantonbury, and again 
with the camp on Leigh Down. This camp commands a 
view of the whole valley between Bath and Bristol, and is 
entered by a road from the west, and separated into two 
portions by a mound, apparently a continuation of the 
work. Each of these divisions has a mound in the centre, 
forming a long barrow, with a slight ditch. "The road leads 
direct from the west and the east gates, where it erosses the 
ditch, which is about thirty feet wide, and has amound out- 
side of it on the one half. At 300 paces from this entrance 
we have a Roman canıp, which has some curious works on 
the north side of it. The road to the camp which passes 
through the north and south gates is very distinctly to be 
traced. "There is also another Roman camp about a quarter 
of a mile distant, but the turnpike road passes through it, 
and has destroyed its symmetry. From these two camps it 
may be inferred that the British earth-work was stormed 
and taken. On the other side of the hill we have the 
curious works which bring us back into the period of 
modern history, and tell of eivil strife. We have the 
traces of the battle of Lansdown, in the works thrown up 
by Sir William Waller, which cost the cavalry of King 
Charles I. so many brave lives, and near to which is the 
monument to Sir Beville Grenville, who fell on this occa- 
sion. Looking from the western extremity of Lansdown, 
