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tute. He states that u this magnificent earthwork veaches 

 from the Woodlands of Berkshire to the British Channel. 

 The conquests it was intended to include, seem to have 

 been, first, the Vale of Pewsey; secondly, the mineral 

 district of the Mendip Hills; and thirdly, the country 

 lying betvveen this ränge and the river Parret. Ptolemy 

 gives us Winchester, Bath, and Ilchester, as the three 

 principal towns of the Belgic province. Bath is just 

 toithout the Belgic boundary, and therefore could not have 

 been a Belgic town ; but the Belgic fortress on Hampton 

 Down, which lay immediately above the hot baths, may 

 probably have led the geographer into the mistake." See 

 Archteological Journal, No. 30, July 1851. 



Wansdyke traverses the whole of Wilts from E. to W., 

 and enters Somerset on the -brow of Farley Down, cross- 

 ing the Avon at the foot of the hill, a little beyond the 

 village of Bathford — between it and Warleigh — on the 

 property of D. Shrine, Esq., where it can be distinctly 

 traced just before crossing the river. The line between 

 the road to Warleigh House and the river, is marked by 

 some trees growing on the Valium, and a cattle shed 

 erected on it, while the Foss serves as a waggon road to the 

 shed. After crossing the river, it mounts up the hill called 

 Hampton Down, and forins the northern boundary of the 

 camp there situated. Here the construction of a tram 

 road, formed by Ralph Allan, Esq., of noted memory, for 

 carrying stone from bis quarries -to the canal, and the 

 former working of these, now no longer in use, have for a 

 space obliterated the traces of the bank and ditch. Some 

 inequalities of the ground just above the canal, probably 

 hovvever indicate its course, which is very distinctly 

 marked all along the N. and W. boundary of the camp, 

 having, as is always the case with Wansdyke, the ditch to 



