ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



SCALE OF FtET 



100 200 300 



THE CAMP, BELTON 



SIMPLE DEFENSIVE INCLOSURES 

 (CLASS C) 



BELTON (xvii, 5). Four miles north from Whitwick, on the gentle 

 slope of a hill, near the highest part, and facing north, is a circular camp. 

 It is now a simple plateau with no 

 breastwork, but surrounded by a fosse 

 1 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, except on 

 the west, where the counterscarp has 

 been destroyed. To the west of the 

 camp flows the Grace Dieu Brook. 



BURTON OVERY (xxxviii, 10). 

 Seven and a half miles south-east from 

 Leicester. In a field south-west of the 

 church, on gravel soil sloping down 

 to a rivulet on the west, are the val- 

 lum and fosse of a square camp. The 

 eastern and western sides are clearly 

 defined for about 300 ft., the vallum 

 on the west is 5 ft. high and 12 ft. 

 wide, that on the east is 4 ft. high and 1 2 ft. wide, the latter being 

 strengthened by a fosse 20 ft. wide and 4 ft. 6 in. deep at its most perfect 

 point. The southern vallum, 10 ft. wide and 2 ft. high from the interior, 

 with a shallow external fosse, is most pronounced at the south-west corner, 

 where apparently the main entrance was situated. The northern vallum 

 has almost gone, but enough remains to show what appears to have been 

 a minor entrance at the north-west angle, although it is now too indistinct 

 for definite decision. 



From the north-east angle an agger, 4 ft. in height, runs parallel to the 

 interior of the eastern vallum for a distance of 80 ft., looking towards the 

 higher ground from which the camp was most easily assailed. 



HALLATON (xxxix, 14). About i, 600 ft. 

 south-west from ' Castle Hill Camp ' (see 

 Class E), upon the height of a gently un- 

 dulating hill is a rectangular camp with a 

 long axis of 300 ft. and a short axis of 

 220 ft. It has been surrounded by a vallum 

 rising 2 ft. from the interior, with an es- 

 carpment of 5 ft. 6 in. ; the rampart, how- 

 ever, has been destroyed in the middle of 

 the two long sides. The entrance at the 

 eastern angle is defended by the vallum 

 rising a foot above the general height, 

 and is situated at the point nearest to the 

 Castle Hill. 



HUNGERTON (xxxii, 10). The remains of a strong Roman camp north- 

 west of the British stronghold at Billesdon have been utilized as a manor-house 

 defence, and are therefore described in Class G. 



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THE CAMP, HALLATON 



