204 The Environs of Bath. 



Sketch Plan of Hampton Camp. 

 Chas. E. Davis, F.S.A. 



Although Aquse Sulis with its suburbs must have occupied 

 a much larger area, it is here represented as bounded by a 

 wall and fosse to the north on the same line as the mediseval 

 borough-wall, and by a similar line of boundary almost at a 

 right angle from the borough-walls near the present Theatre, 

 to the river by a direct line slightly to the east of a brook 

 that ran in that direction and still forms a parish boundary. 



The area between these two lines and the river on the 

 remaining two sides exceeded 69 acres. 



The Camp on Hampton-down is bounded on the north, 

 west, and south by a dyke, and on the east by a cliff. 

 This Camp contains an area of from 74 to 80 acres. 



Sulisbury Camp occupies a plateau on the summit of a 

 distinct hill which, partially escarped, ' covers an area of 

 22 acres. 



The Wansdyke is shown in the map by shaded lines, and 

 is also denoted by the letters a-b, c-d, e-f, g-h, i-k, l-m, 

 N-o. The Wansdyke on the west of the letter a could not 

 be shown, but it followed the Fosse-way a short distance, 

 and then crossed it, taking a more westerly direction through 

 Englishcombe to Stantonbury. The "dotted lines between 

 the letters b-c, d-e, etc., indicate its presumed position. 



Between the letters b and nearly to c a cliff, gives the liile, 

 as is also the case between e and f. The surface having 

 been quarried between d and e the line cannot be traced, 

 but between f and g, as also betwfien h and i, the surface is 

 barely sufficiently artificial to justify the assumption that the 



