A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



or platform, extends only along a portion of this eastern side. A small 

 slope of the agger, from which the garrison could control the use of the 

 The fosse, 40 ft. below the inner vallum on the north side, rises at 



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the north-west corner some 

 14 ft., and the second 

 rampart rises with it until 

 it attains the same height 

 as the inner rampart, 

 while the first rampart 

 increases to 10 ft. above 

 the interior area at the 

 north. The third great 

 vallum encloses an intri- 

 cate entry on the south, 

 where a subsidiary earth- 

 work occupies the broad- 

 ened valley of the fosse : 

 here a sunk path passes 

 through the middle vallum 

 from the inner fosse on to 

 an ogee descent protected 

 by a smaller fosse within 

 the greater. It has been 

 seen how the ramparts 

 assume greater height on 

 the north, this is because 

 it is the position most 

 easily assailed by reason of 

 the land being less preci- 

 pitous ; the third vallum 

 also rises to great height 

 here, and at the north-west 

 curve it widens into a 

 broad platform edged by 

 a low bank. Outside this 

 angle is yet another de- 

 fence in a fourth agger. 



The entrance is near 

 the middle of the west 

 side, running the gauntlet 

 of three ramparts and two 

 ditches, with an agger 

 parallel to the path pro- 

 tecting the entrance of 

 the fosse on the right. 

 This passes obliquely be- 

 tween the earthworks, 

 and as it reaches the in- 

 terior it is divided into 

 two ways by a triangular 

 mound ; from the mound 

 rise two defences which 

 are the curved and 

 widened ends of two la- 

 teral ramparts which cross 

 the area from west to 

 east. 



The two transverses, 

 somewhat south of the 

 centre of the camp, have 

 paths through them ar- 

 ranged obliquely. The 

 southern bank is 3- ft. 

 high, rising to 5 ft. at a 



