ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



camp through which runs the great Fosse Way towards Newark ; this being 

 the boundary between two parishes, part of the camp is in Car Colston and 

 part in East Bridgford. 



It is an irregular camp with a single vallum, depending to a slight extent 

 on the natural slope, which is steepest on the south and south-east, decreasing 

 as it proceeds northwards. On the north-west side of the Fosse Way the 

 northern defences are said to have been in two tiers, this being the most 

 accessible side for an enemy approaching from the direction of Newark. 

 The inner defence curved round the north and turned into the central area, 

 forming a defended entrance to the interior. The whole of the western 

 defence has been obliterated by the plough. Just beyond the fort to the west 

 is a spring of water. 



Many Roman coins and fragments of pottery have been found within 

 the circumvallation, and it is generally supposed to have been the site of the 

 Roman station of Margidunum. 



DARLTON : CAMP AT KINGSHAUGH. Two and a half miles north-east 

 of Tuxford is a system of earthworks embracing an area of about 7 acres. 

 The northern boundary 

 is a small stream flowing 

 eastward towards the 

 River Trent, about three 

 miles distant. 



The inner work is 

 a broad ditch which 

 originally appears to 

 have enclosed an ir- 

 regular circle, the extant 

 half being on the east. 

 On the same side is an 

 outer vallum and ditch, 

 the latter broadening 

 and again narrowing 

 towards the entrance, 

 the widest part con- 

 taining a mound for the 

 additional defence of 

 the narrow passage by 

 which access was gained 

 to the interior. 



In mediaeval times these defences were adapted to the old Kingshaugh 

 House, which formed part of the manor of Dunham. 



EAST BRIDGFORD. Part of the camp mentioned under Car Colston is 

 in this parish. 



EPPERSTONE. In Epperstone Park, 6 miles north-east from Nottingham, 

 on ' Solly Hill,' Mr. Dickinson mentions the presence of a Roman camp 

 ' very little obliterated.' l It is also noticed by Dr. Gale, who considered it 

 to be the Causennae of the Itinerary. A number of Roman coins were found 

 here in 1776. 



1 Exploratory Observations, p. 17. . 

 301 





6CALC OF FEET 

 O IOO 200 30O 



KINGSHAUGH CAMP, DARLTON. 



