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Hembury Castle, Buckland Brewer. 



The length of interior area is 852 ft. and the width 466 ft. at the east, and 420 ft. at the 



larrowest part. 



Sling stones have been found within its enclosure. It commands a view of the whole estuary 



if the Axe, and is in touch 



vith the fortress at Musbury. 

 This camp was prob- 



ibly one of the border fortifi- 



:ations of the territory of the 



Durotriges. 



BucKLAND Brewer 



O.S. xxix, 9). — Hembury 



Zlastle, also spelled ' Henbury ' 



:o distinguish it from two 



jther earthworks bearing the 



same name in Devonshire. 

 This is one of a trio 



3f camps, within sight of each 



Dther, along the banks of the 



River Duntz, a tributary of 



the Yeo, the other two be- 

 ing respectively in Buckland 



Wood and Frithelstock parish. 

 Situated on the summit 



of a hill 5 miles south-west 



of Torrington, Hembury is 



a small tableland of oblong 



form containing about 5 acres, 



now under cultivation. This 



is protected by an escarpment 



— the lower part of which is 



the natural slope — 10 ft. per- 

 pendicular measurement, and 



a fosse from 1 6 ft. to 18 ft. wide ; the earth removed for the formation of the fosse being 



thrown outwards formed a bank on the verge of the hill-side. The slope of the hill is very pre- 

 cipitous on the southern and eastern sides as it descends to two small streams which flow into the 



Duntz. The northern side, though difficult 

 fl of approach, is the most accessible, and here 



are the remains of a crescent-formed out- 

 work of rampart and fosse which join the 

 main work at its two extremities on the 

 west and the north-east. 



In the ditches quantities of charred 

 wood have been discovered ; and a mound, 

 formerly at the south-west of the interior 

 area, was found to contain the bones of 

 numerous skeletons, supposed to be the 

 bodies of those who fell in the Civil War 

 when the Royalist troops were fain to take 

 refuge in these ancient entrenchments. 



Cadbury (O.S. Iv, 5). — Cadbury 

 Castle. Crowning the summit of the most 

 lofty of a group of isolated hills, nearly 

 2 miles from the River Exe, on its western 

 bank, and the same distance south of Cad- 

 leigh, a British camp lies between Castle 

 Plantation on the east and Northcastle Plan- 

 tation on the north. Oval in form, 640 ft. 

 in diameter from east to west, and 470 ft. 

 from north to south, it consists of an ele- 

 vated area 400 ft. by 300 ft. with a deep 



fosse on its west, south, and east sides, a bold agger surrounding the whole. The levelled camp 



area has a rampart only 2 ft. high on the north, but with an escarpment of 20 ft. on the exterior, 



otherwise depending on the steep declivity of the hill for its protection. From the east, round the 



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