

ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



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SCALE OF FEET 



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WOODBOROUGH CAMP 





At present the remains are somewhat oval in form. The strongest 

 position, approaching a square, has three sides of a vallum and fosse ; but on 

 the eastern side they begin 

 to curve outwards into an- 

 other court, which possibly 

 provided a well-defended 

 entrance into this innermost 

 area. On the north is an- 

 other court with the fosse 

 remaining on the north and 

 west sides ; at the north- 

 east the defence changes 

 into a vallum which ap- 

 parently, by the progress 

 of its line, joined the 

 northern entrenchments of 

 the inner court ; but the 

 eastern side is lost. 



From the middle of 

 the northern side a strong 

 vallum, embracing all the 

 inner works, passes around 

 the western and southern 

 sides, at the extremity of 

 which latter it is destroyed ; 

 this entrenchment is probably older than the interior works. At the middle- 

 north point is an entrance, difficult of access ; the agger is here incurved, while 

 another rampart, taking the same curve outwardly, forms a sunken approach, 

 which for iBoft. even in its mutilated state could be covered by a cross- 

 fire from both sides. 



On the western side the intervening ground between the inner fosse 

 and outer vallum widens into a broad platform. 



The position of this stronghold is the centre of many surrounding camps, 

 and communication could easily be made with those at Lambley on the south ; 

 Lowdham and Thurgarton on the east ; Epperstone and Oxton on the north ; 

 and the two in the parish of Arnold on the west. 



RECTANGULAR CAMPS, ETC. 

 [CLASS C] 



ARNOLD. Nearly 2 miles north of Arnold, and 5 miles north of 

 Nottingham, is the site of a camp on Hollinwood Hill alias Cockpit Hill, 

 on a point 521 ft. above sea-level. 



This camp dominates the ancient road from Nottingham to Bawtry 

 and the north, which passes this elevated site three-quarters of a mile to the 

 west. It is a point where the roads, or ridgeways, and three parishes meet, 

 viz., those of Arnold, Calverton, and Woodborough. 



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