ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



from an inspection on the spot. Its ramparts enclose an area of about 

 sixty acres, and there are no less than four entrances to the camp. One 

 entrance is on the eastern side where the narrow neck of land joins the 

 camp. The ramparts here are specially strong to cover the entrance. 

 Along the south-eastern side is another entrance, and almost at the 

 southern extremity is a third. At both of these entrances the ramparts 

 are developed in order to command the approach. A fourth entrance 

 is near the most northern end of the camp. 



Cissbury Camp shows considerable skill in the way the ramparts 

 and fosses are planned. The ramparts are made not at the top of the 





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slope, where it would have been necessary to throw up a vast quantity 

 of earth, but half-way down the slope, and the material removed from 

 an internal ditch has been thrown outwards to form them, thus effect- 

 ing a great economy of labour. 



One curious feature which distinguishes Cissbury from many of 

 the prehistoric camps of the South Downs is the large number of pits 

 with which the slope on the western side of the area within the ram- 

 part is honeycombed. These pits, which vary from 20 to 70 feet in 

 diameter, were carefully examined by General Pitt-Rivers' in 1867 



Arch. xlii. 53-76. 

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