

BUSSOCK CAMP, CHIEVELEY. 



ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



extent disappeared, the inner vallum alone remaining. On the other 



sides two valla are distinctly to be seen, with a deep fosse between 



them, and to the east, for a short distance, a second fosse is found. 



It has been said that there are four entrances, but only three are 



clearly visible, all of which are 



to the east ; the other breaks in 



the vallum appear to be modern. 

 The defences were, in all 



probability, originally much 



stronger on the south and east 



sides, as here the ground is on 



a level with the camp. 



Nothing of interest has been 



found in the camp except some 



' half-calcined flints,' which, it 



has been suggested, might have 



been used as pot boilers. 1 



COMPTON, PERBOROUGH 



CASTLE. On the top of the hill 



on Compton Cow Down, at the 



extreme south of the parish, lies 



the camp known by this name. 



It is nearly circular in form and 



was surrounded by a fosse between two valla, but the greater part of the 



outer vallum has been ploughed away, leaving only faint traces of 



the inner one and a steep escarpment. On the north, however, the 



defences remain in a very fair state of preservation, though the banks 



are not so steep as they must have been formerly. 



The original entrance is said to 

 have been on the north-east, and was 

 fortified with a double ditch, but there 

 is no double ditch to be seen by the 

 present entrance on the northern part of 

 the east side. 



Throughout the area are several 

 deep pits and ponds of varying dimen- 

 sions, which have been thought to be 

 the remains of primitive pit-dwellings. 

 They have not, however, been explored 

 recently. 



On either side of the north-eastern 

 gateway were the foundations of two 

 towers, built of sarson stones laid over 

 a layer of flints. Stones are also said to 



have been discovered in the vallum, by testing with an iron bar. 



Several cellars are said to have been found, containing a quantity 



1 Trans. Nnobury Dist. Field Club, ii. 14-17. 

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PERBOROUGH CASTLE, COMPTON. 



