A HISTORY OF SUSSEX 



from some important camps, or signalling-posts, such as White Hawk, 

 Edburton, Chanctonbury Ring, etc. 



The natural steepness of the hillsides on the north-west, north- 

 east, and south-east renders the site one of great strength, and has made 

 it unnecessary to add much artificial work. Accordingly, although the 

 line of fosse and rampart runs completely round the large irregularly 

 shaped oblong enclosure, attention has chiefly been directed to the 

 south-west and south-south-west sides, where the camp has been cut off 

 from the adjacent level ground of the Downs ; the rampart has been 





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made of a considerable size, and a deep ditch has been constructed on 

 the outside. 



This important part of the defences of the Devil's Dyke Camp is 

 interesting as showing how very closely artificial work followed the 

 natural features of the site, furnishing precisely those defensive features 

 which the natural contour failed to give, and at the same time utilizing 

 all those natural features which already existed. In this work the ram- 

 part and fosse are most developed about the middle of the south-west 

 and south-south-west sides, where naturally there was a practically level 

 surface extending from the main chain of the Downs to the spur which 

 is now enclosed by the earthwork. A little to the north-west of this 

 point the surface slopes towards the Weald, and the artificial work is 

 of a much less formidable character in consequence. The highest 



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