A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



RING. It has been enclosed with a rampart, in part double, and deep 

 ditch, though a portion of this, at the southern end of the oval, dis- 

 appeared some time ago owing to farm enclosures. Its internal measure- 

 ment from north to south is about 240 feet. There was a small tumulus 

 adjoining on the west side, but it has been removed. 1 Major Rooke 

 gave a plan of Castle Ring in 1782; he says of it: 'It has a deep 

 ditch and double vallum ; the entrance is very visible on the south-east 

 side, where part of the vallum has been levelled by the plough. The 

 diameter from north-east to south-west is 143 feet, from south-east to 

 north-west 165 feet.' But the plan gives the last measurement as 

 156 feet." 



3. Immediately to the east of HATHERSAGE church is a small 

 earthwork known as CAMP GREEN (x. 12). It was originally a circular 



enclosure having a diameter of about 

 200 feet, and surrounded by a rampart 

 and ditch. There are still some remains, 

 but it is now traversed by a footpath 

 and much of the site is encumbered with 

 buildings. 



Bateman described it, in 1848, as ' a 

 high, large, circular mound of earth in- 

 closed by a deep ditch and vallum.' 3 Sir 

 Gardner Wilkinson wrote of it, in 1860: 

 * Its position and entourage argue in favour 

 of its being British.' 4 There is, however, 

 a much earlier and more accurate account 

 of this earthwork than those just cited. 

 Mr. Bray, during his tour of 1779, de- 

 scribes this small circular camp as having 

 an outside diameter of 200 feet, whilst 

 the inner area was 144 feet in diameter. 

 A ground plan and a section are given, 

 from which it would appear that the 

 centre was not a mound but a hollow 

 within a rampart some 20 feet high, the 

 whole surrounded by a deep ditch. 8 

 This earthwork was visited by the British Archaeological Society, 

 in July 1889, when it was described as circular and consisting of a high 

 rampart with a moat outside, but in a fragmentary condition.' 



4. On the high ground above the road from Hope to Castleton, 

 on the left hand a little beyond Hope, is the FOLLY (x. 5), a small 

 annular entrenchment about 75 feet in diameter, with a slight elevation 

 in the centre. A celt has been found here. Possibly this circular 



1 Briefly described in Bateman's Vestiges. * Archeeok&a, vi. 113, plate 1 6. 



* Vestiges, 12$. 4 Reliquary, i. 162-3. 



* Bray's Tour In Deri, and Torks (1783), 245, plate v. Perhaps both Bray and Bateman meant the 

 same thing, the centre being raised as a sort of mound surrounded by a vallum. 



* Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N. S. vi. 276. 



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