SECTION THROUGH RAMPART. 



ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



WINKFIELD. There are the remains of a camp on a steep hill 

 immediately to the east of the Ascot and Bagshot road, to the north of 

 Tower Hill House. The camp is described by Gough as being 

 irregular in shape, 1 following the contour of the hill, which is very steep 

 except to the north-north-east, where the entrance was. The fosse was 

 about twelve feet wide. 



At the top could be seen a few years ago fragments of concrete and 

 bricks, which appeared to be the remains of the tower marked as ' New 

 Towre' on Norden's Map (1607), and it has been suggested that 

 perhaps the ditch was excavated when the tower was erected. 



LITTLE WITTENHAM, SINODUN HILL CAMP. This camp, which 

 has a commanding position on the top of an almost isolated chalk hill, 

 overlooks the Valley of 

 the Thames a few miles 

 north of Wallingford. 



Its construction dif- 

 fers from the others that 

 have been described. In 

 this case a deep fosse has 

 been excavated around the 

 hill, half-way between the 

 top and the bottom, and 

 no true vallum has been 

 thrown up. 



The accompanying 

 plan and section will ex- 

 plain the construction, 

 from which it will be 

 seen that the chalk taken 

 from the fosse has been 

 used to raise the level of 

 the interior of the camp, 

 while that removed from 

 outside has been piled upon the vallum left between the fosse and the 

 base of the hill. The entrance is on the south-west, but is not defended 

 by any additional earthworks. 



Leland and Camden have mentioned that Roman coins were found 



there in great profusion." 



RECTANGULAR CAMPS, ETC. 



[CLASS C] 



Rectangular camps are not numerous in Berkshire, and several of 

 those described are not very clearly marked. Some, indeed, such as that 

 at Hampstead Norris, may be only a ditch enclosing a rectangular 



i Cough's Camden, i. 237. 



Leland, It. ii. 13, 14. Cough's Camden, i. 214, 223. Lysons' Mag. Bnt. 214, 440. 



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SINODUN HILL CAMP. 



