By The Rev. H. SHAEN SOLLY, M.A. 



(Read 12th August, 1920.) 



GGARDUN Hill* is a spur at the western extremity 

 of the chalk plateau which stretches across the 

 South of England. Only a few outliers, such as 

 Beer Head, represent a further western extension 

 of the chalk. At the base of this formation is the chloritic 

 marl, highly fossiliferous, and then comes the greensand 

 forming the summits of the ring of hills that can be 

 seen surrounding the heights and valleys of Jurassic beds. 

 Eggardun, from which the scene may be surveyed, is itself 

 800 feet above sea level, and the steepness of the escarpment 

 admirably adapted it for the site of a promontory fort. Two 

 such forts have evidently been made here. The first is 

 represented by an entrenchment which crosses the spur from 

 side to side and formed a comparatively small camp at the 

 western end of the spur. Here much wastage of the chalk 



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