ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 
intersection of the old Cambridge road, which here crosses it at a right 
angle in the dip below. It is not unlikely that this marks the extent of 
the encampment at this point, and that the old road turned round its 
northern end. 
About half way along the eastern side, where the slope becomes less 
steep, the lower terrace referred to becomes a fosse, which follows with 
the rampart up to the boundary, where it is lost. The commencement 
of this fosse is close to an original entrance, which is commanded by a 
bend of the rampart on each side of it. A break of the edge of the 
heights on the west, near the mound, may also mark an entrance, al- 
though the rampart is here missing. 
The area of the part which can be defined is about 7 acres, and 
the interior has been much levelled to form a garden. 
In digging, small bronze coins of the minimi type, much defaced, 
are often found, and fragments of a coarse thick pottery, not made on 
the wheel. There are no springs in the enclosure ; well-water only 
occurs at a depth of 180 feet ; and the present channel of the Ivel below 
is a quarter of a mile distant. The slopes of the hill are now thickly 
covered with firs, but Lyson’s drawing’ shows the whole site bare, a 
long terraced hill, with rampart well marked, not unlike Old Sarum. 
Camden says that the Danes during their Tempsford campaign, 
‘demolished (as ’tis thought) that British fort, the place whereof is now 
call’d Chesterfield and Salndy, which often gives fresh proof of it’s an- 
tiquity by throwing up Roman money.’* On what authority is not 
stated. The position of the work on this commanding height, its irregu- 
lar following of the line of the ridge, and the style of its defences, seem 
to mark it as of native construction, before or about the time of the 
Roman occupation. 
(5) Tue Garrzy Hitt Camp.—On a sister height, covered with well- 
grown firs, about three-quarters of a mile south from ‘Czsar’s Camp,’ stands 
the second entrenchment, in the grounds of Lord Peel. It isa smaller work, 
nearly oblong, and shows strong signs of Roman influence, being nearly 
rectilinear and rectangular, with rounded angles. It is placed on the south- 
west end of the ridge, which sharply slopes away from the rampart on 
three sides to the plain 50 or 60 feet below. On the fourth side to the 
north-west a single vallum and fosse crosses the flat continuous ridge of 
the hill. Round the rest of the work the rampart is double, except 
above the eastern scarp, where all traces of it have disappeared. The 
lower rampart top is 6 feet below that of the upper, and between them 
the fosse continues round some 20 feet in width. The double work is 
strongest at the angles, as in the middle of the flanks it has worn away 
to little more than a lower terrace on the hillside. The interior measure- 
ment on the south is 343 feet, and on the east 273 feet; thus its pro- 
portions are as 1 to 13. There is a gap in the north-west rampart facing 
the ridge, a little east of the centre, which has the appearance of an 
1 Add MS. 9460, f. 25. 
? Camden’s Britannia (Gibson’s ed. 1695), p. 288. 
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