

ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



north, and the broad part at the south, on which side the quarries have 

 destroyed the fortifications. The artificial defences consist generally of a 

 double vallum and fosse of great strength. 



The eastern entrance is reached by a steep curved path which is com- 

 manded by a bold vallum, a curved agger where the former meets the natural 

 slope, and a berm with a mound contained within the sickle-shaped curve of 

 the path, making a disputed entry a formidable undertaking. On the north 

 of this path the vallum rises 1 7 ft. from the interior, and is 1 8 ft. wide, but 

 the escarpment is now only i6ft., this and the outer vallum having been 

 partly destroyed by quarrying. Beyond the quarry, however, the earthworks 

 are complete ; the inner vallum has a scarp of 22ft. into a wide fosse 3 ft. 

 deep, whilst the outer vallum descends a long distance before it is merged in 

 the hillside. 



After a straight course of 230 ft., a semicircular hollow, possibly the site 

 of a guard room, screened by a bank, lies at the base of the first vallum ; the 

 fosse emerges upon the angle of a path to the interior, with another small 

 chamber space in the thickness of the second vallum. This path, hugging 

 the escarpment, ascends from the north to the south, and at the above- 

 mentioned angle turns to the north, at which point the original scheme of 

 defence is lost by the erection of a building. On the north side of the 

 building the vallum incurves towards the south-west, with a wide platform 

 at the angle ; the principal entrance is here, and the road is thus dominated 

 by the direction of the vallum, which, rising 9 ft. from the interior, has a 

 scarp of 28 ft., a counterscarp 1 2 ft. high, an outer scarp of 7 ft., and the 

 remains of a third vallum now but a foot in height. 



The other side of the entrance road falls away to the depths below, with 

 stages at various levels, but this also is commanded by a vallum and a yet 

 higher platform which branch off from the main defences on the western side. 



Interesting as this approach may be at the present time, other details of 

 engineering skill are evidently 

 lost by the displacement of the 

 ground in testing the quality 

 of the limestone at this side. 



At the north-west is a 

 single vallum of great strength ; 

 but at the south-west the double 

 vallum and fosse are again in 

 evidence on the verge of a pre- 

 cipitous descent. 



BURROUGH, or BURROW ON 

 THE HILL (xxvii, 9 and 10), is 

 5 miles south of Melton Mow- 

 bray, and nearly a mile north 

 of the village. 



Burrough Camp, on a com- 

 manding hill of limestone and 

 ironstone, is a fortified position 

 of great strength, and the notice 



accorded tO it by the earlier BURROUGH CAMP, BURROUGH ON THE HILL 



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