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original entrance. A footpath also enters the work on this side near the 
north-west angle, where the rampart is again pierced and the moat partly 
filled, but this seems to be too near the edge of the scarp to be original. 
There is a further breach on the north-east, where the angle is entirely 
removed with all the eastern rampart. This breach shows the section 
of the vallum, which is here g feet above the bottom of the fosse, and 
about 4 or 5 feet above the interior level. It is composed of the sand 
and shaly ironstone which is native to the site. The fort could only 
have been approached on anything like even terms from the level ridge 
on the north-west. The whole area of the camp was under cultivation 
up to forty or fifty years ago. Trial trenches dug under Lord Peel’s 
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instructions within the entrances in the north-west vallum have revealed 
nothing of interest. 
There is the same want of water as in the case of ‘Czsar’s Camp,’ 
and the Ivel is even further off. Chesterfield is the name of the level 
ground between these two hill stations, now partly occupied by the 
cemetery. All over this large area, including the part cut off by the 
Great Northern Railway, Roman remains continue to be found. On 
the heights round about Lord Peel’s residence, Roman coins are dug up, 
mostly of the middle or later emperors, although there is no record of 
their having been found within the Galley Hill camp. There are also 
signs of other earthworks on these heights, which call for further ex- 
amination. 
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