LOWBURV CAMP, 

 ASTON UPTHORPE. 



A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE 



paddock, but all those which have been noticed as possible camps have 

 been set down, and future investigations will perhaps determine whether 

 they should remain on the list or not. 



ASTON UPTHORPE, LOWBURY CAMP. The most conspicuous camp 

 of rectangular form is that on Lowbury Hill. The earthworks are not 

 very prominent, but the vallum and fosse, though small, 

 N to>v6ury Hilt can be traced quite clearly, and form an accurate rect- 

 angle. 



Fragments of Roman tiles, mortar, pottery, and 

 coins have been found here in abundance, and quantities 

 of oyster-shells can be picked out of a heap in one corner 

 of the camp. 



The camp lies near the Icknield-way, a branch of 

 which runs east for a mile or more in a perfectly straight line known as 

 the Fair Mile. 1 



FINCHAMPSTEAD. There is supposed to be a Roman camp around 

 the church at Finchampstead, which stands near the road from London 

 to Silchester. There is nothing left now 

 but a rectangular plateau with a steep es- 

 carpment on all sides except the eastern 

 portion of the north side, where the road 

 has somewhat disturbed the original shape 

 of the surface. 3 



HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. To the west of 

 the church there are the remains of a ditch 

 with a slight vallum within it, forming 

 three sides of a rectangle. The churchyard 



has been enlarged within recent years so as to cross the ditch, which has 

 been filled up through this part of its length. Nothing can be seen of 

 the fourth side, which, if it existed, must have run to the east of the 

 church near the present road. 



HINTON WALDRIST, ACHESTER. This is a small and little known 

 rectangular camp, consisting of a fosse with a vallum inside it, situated 

 in a wood on low-lying ground between the village of Hinton Waldrist 

 and the Faringdon and Oxford road. 



MAIDENHEAD. There is a small rectangular camp with concave 

 sides on Maidenhead Thicket, in the direction of Pinkney's Green. It 

 consists of a fosse with a small vallum inside and another outside. 3 



TILEHURST. There is a well preserved rectangular camp in a wood 

 near Tilehurst station. 



WALLINGFORD. The town of Wallingford was surrounded on three 

 sides by a high vallum, a considerable part of which still remains, and 

 without this by a moat filled with water by inversion of a stream which 

 flowed from the west. The river formed the defence on the fourth 



1 Hewitt, Hundred of Compton, 113-5. 



2 Berks, Bucks and Oxon Arch. Journal, ii. 28. Lyon, Hist, of Finchampstead. 



3 Berks Arch. Quart. Journ. ii. 74. Berks, Bucks and Oxon. Arch. Journ. vii. 95. 



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