ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 
to the east. Faint signs of continuation on the turf of the park seem 
to suggest that the work may have completed a circuit, either circular 
+ Roman 
Finds here QUINCE HILL 
SCALE OF FEET 
Labirzsiitrit i 
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or oval in shape, in that direction. Roman remains have been found in 
a neighbouring field to the north. 
(4) ‘Casar’s Camp,’ Sanpy.—At Sandy, which has proved the 
most fruitful field for the discovery of Roman antiquities in the county, 
there are two works of great interest, which may usefully be considered 
together. That it was a site of some importance in Roman days the 
remains which have been unearthed prove. Two Roman roads pass the 
spot, and the names Chesterfield and Stratford tell their own story of 
Roman influence. 
‘ Czsar’s Camp,’ so called, appears to be an early fortress or refuge 
station not unlike Mam Tor, except for the double ramparts. It is 
placed along the highest ridge of a range of sandy hills, with steep 
lateral slopes, except at the rear to the north, where the heights broaden 
out and round themselves into the vales with easier descent. On this 
side therefore there was the more need of strong defensive lines, but un- 
fortunately this part of the work has been obliterated by the long-standing 
use of the ground for allotment gardens. ‘The remainder is now occu- 
pied by the house and grounds of Guy Pym, Esq., M.P., and to that 
fact owes its better preservation. His boundary crosses the site from 
north-east to south-west, and along the whole circuit of the ridge within 
it the remains may be followed. ‘They are strongest at the southern angle 
of the hill, which here rises some 80 feet or more above the plain. The 
enclosing rampart makes a sharp bend at this point, in following the 
line of the ridge, and ends in a small mound rising 3 or 4 feet above it, 
and about 11 feet above the present level of the interior. The rampart 
is 8 feet high inside and 20 feet outside, where its steep scarp ends in 
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