ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



A few hundred yards to the west is a deep trench running away 

 from the camp down a steep hill, parallel to the road to Highworth. It 

 has all the appearance of a packhorse track, and seems to indicate that 

 Badbury, like so many other hill camps, stood near an ancient way. 



EASTHAMPSTEAD, CESAR'S CAMP. This, the only camp of 

 importance in the eastern part of the county, differs in many respects 

 from the others described. It lies upon the edge of a high plateau, and 

 its ramparts follow the contours of the ground, producing a camp shaped 

 somewhat like an oak leaf. 



It is defended by a vallum and fosse, and in most places by an outside 

 vallum, though this is sometimes absent when the ground falls away 

 very steeply. Across the neck of the plateau, where the natural defences 

 are weaker, there are two fosses. 



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GRIMSBURY CASTLE, HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. 



The principal entrance is to the south, from the level ground, but 

 there is another to the extreme north. The breaks in the defences to 

 the east and west are probably modern. 



This seems to be the camp at which was found the silver coin of 

 Cunobelin mentioned by Gough. 1 The Roman road, known as the 

 Devil's Highway, running from London to Silchester, passes at no great 

 distance south of the camp, and a branch from this, said to be of Roman 

 date, runs direct to the south entrance of the camp. 



HAMPSTEAD NORRIS, GRIMSBURY CASTLE. This camp is situated 

 on the top of a wooded hill about a mile east of Hermitage Station. Its 

 form is an irregular triangle with rounded corners, following the con- 



Cough's Camden, i. 237, 238. Lysons, Mag. Brit. i. 214. 



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