ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



level on the south and quickly attains a height of 5 ft. ; in the middle 

 of the western side it rises to 8 ft., declining somewhat towards the 

 north it again rises towards 

 its termination at the north- 

 east. The vallum is broad 

 and a path has been made 

 on the top, probably at the 

 expense of a greater original 

 height, which is now about 

 2 ft. above the interior area 

 except at the north where 

 the vallum stands boldly 

 above the ground which is 

 the same internally and ex- 

 ternally at this spot. A path 

 pierces the vallum at the 

 north-east, but a very small 

 portion of the latter remains 

 on the eastern side of the 



path. The plan of the Works HARMONDSWORTH CAMP 



in the neighbourhood of the 



path is in perfect harmony with an original entrance between an inturned 

 vallum, containing a guard-room within the curve and a platform 

 obtained by the widening of the vallum ; at the same time this arrange- 

 ment may possibly have been made when the house was built, whereby 

 an even pathway might be obtained, and by the removal of soil from 

 the interior area a garden bower formed on the site of the possible 

 guard-room for which purpose this hollow is now used. Around the 

 north-west is a portion of the fosse, from 3 ft. to 4 ft. deep, which has 

 been raised above its original depth to form a gravelled path. On 



, the south-east is a modern 



SCALE OF FEET 

 100 00 300 



Railway 



SCALE OF FEET 

 O IOO 40O 3OO 



HOUNSLOW CAMP 



pond, fed by a spring in its 

 northern part, at a spot 

 which would have been im- 

 mediately outside the origi- 

 nal circuit of the vallum, 

 and therefore in the fosse. 

 Thus the constructors of the 

 camp may have provided a 

 water-girt stronghold in ad- 

 dition to a water supply. A 

 bank on the north-east of 

 the pond is modern. 



HARMONDSWORTH (xix, 

 8). Three quarters of a mile 

 north-east from Heath Row, 

 immediately south of the 



