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found, and flint flakes, used for weapons or other primitive 

 purposes. 



The isolated position of this hill must have always rendered 

 it a point of importance. Water is abundant on its sides. 



(2) The camp overlooking North Stoke, on the western 

 extremity of Lansdown, under which an interment in a 

 stone coffin has lately been found. 



This camp is cut off by a ditch and mound, which 

 separate it from the down. There is a mound in the centre, 

 and a road passes through the middle of the earthwork. 

 At a short distance from this, eastward, are the remains of 

 a rectangular earthwork, apparently of Roman construction. 



Further to the East, along the down, are the remains of 

 a quadrilateral earthwork, apparently Roman, through which 

 the turnpike road passes. The two last-mentioned earth- 

 works were probably summer camps for Roman soldiers. 

 At Langridge, many remains of Roman occupation have 

 been found, and stone coffins, in one of which was dis- 

 covered, about 25 years ago, a weapon of mediaeval times, 

 the coffin having been used for a second interment. 



(3) On the opposite side of the valley, on Hampton 

 Down, are the remains of a Belgic settlement, the divisions 

 of which and the road passing into it have been traced.* 

 The forest country around Bath, and bordering on the 

 course of the River Avon and its tributary streams, must 

 have harboured many of the original inhabitants, who 

 were held in subjection by the Romans, and were no doubt 

 largely employed by them. (See Elton's "Origins of English 

 History, pp. 106, 223; and Green's " Making of England.") 



The earthwork of early date, called the Wans- 

 DIKE — probably constructed by the Belgse, as 



* See Index, " Camps." 



