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Newton Park, where they are very plain ; thence it continues 

 to English Combe and Stantonbury Camp. 



(4) This camp is distant about four miles from Bath, and 

 occupies an elevated and insulated hill, commanding a fine 

 view over the adjacent country. The Wansdike runs along 

 the northern side, and from thence can be traced at inter- 

 vals as far as Maesknoll, but from this point its course is 

 only conjectural. It is supposed to have terminated either 

 sX. the Avon near Clifton, or lower down at Portishead. 



Stantonbury Camp is divided into two portions, and in- 

 closes a wide area, wherein are remains of hut circles. 



(5) Maesknoll is another earthwork on the line of 

 Wansdike, and occupies the east end of Dundry Hill, from 

 which it is severed by a deep ditch. It is defended on three 

 sides by the nature of the ground, and follows the shape of 

 the hill, which has been scarped to render it more difificult 

 of access. It is defended on the south and east sides by 

 earthworks, within which is enclosed the spring which sup- 

 plied the camp with water. 



Not far from Maesknoll, on the side of Bath, is the little 

 village of Compton Dando, and here may be seen a Roman 

 Altar built into an external buttress of the church, on the 

 North side. The sides of the Altar have two figures, one of 

 Apollo playing the lyre, the other apparently Hercules with 

 his club, (see "Aquae Solis, p. 41.) Both are much defaced 

 and difficult to make out. The camps on the line of Wans- 

 dike give evidence of Roman occupation. 



Two important roads entered the city. One 



K.oads. 



called the Foss, coming from Seaton through 

 Ilchester (an important city in the country of the Belgae in 

 Roman times,) entered the city by crossing the river at 

 the point where the modern bridge now stands, and which 



