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" Well, what have you yourself done?" it will be asked. Very 

 little indeed. It was a disappointing surprise to find no marks of 

 any consequence on Maiden Castle. K"o burnt lines were there on 

 the turf to show the plans, either of the Roman house so well 

 excavated by Mr. Cunnington, or of the minor dwellings and 

 paved road of which he is understood to have found indications. 

 The only plain sign noticed was that of a road passing through 

 the western entrance. 



At Poundbury, the only other camp examined during the 

 drought, slightly more was seen. There also the sign of a road 

 was observed. It passed from near the east end of the tunnel ; in 

 other words, probably from the eastern entrance of the camp 

 downward towards the spot where the barrack hospital now stands. 

 This road, most likely, was only a farm road for access to Pound- 

 bury when it was under the plough. That eastern entrance is 

 held to be modern, and, if so, a road through it clearly must 

 be so too. And in an old print a bam is shown just about 

 the spot in the now barrack yard to which the road seemed to 

 point. Further, it was easy to see, as it has been in several 

 summers of late years, the line of a third and now wholly levelled 

 vallum on that eastern side of Poundbury. The line of scorching 

 could be seen from the southern fence of the down to the railway, 

 and corresponded with the fine section made by the company's 

 surveyor when the cutting there was carried out, and showed the 

 great elaboration of the fortifications of old. Again, there was a 

 puzzling, though distinct, line of scorching which turned westward 

 at the end. It thus joined the second vallum, of which, you 

 know, there is a small bank remaining, as also on the south and 

 much more on the west. What was the object of the bank or 

 vallum marked seemingly by the scorching as curving into that 

 same partly-upstanding second vallum is a mystery. Just possibly, 

 the series of ditches and valla, extremely elaborate on that east 

 side and probably on the south and west sides also, may have 

 been made still more so just at the angles by the insertion of an 

 extra bank. Within the camp there was a rather general look 



