ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 





A gradually sloping ancient road enters the trenches on the western side between defences 

 which might turn a charge into a disaster ; it passes through one side of the camp and emerges on 

 the north. On the east of the road the 

 interior area is almost surrounded by a double 

 vallum and fosse, the latter 23 ft. deep 

 perpendicular measurement, and on the west 

 of the road two bold aggers are curved to 

 the brow of the hill ; the inner one, 45 ft. 

 on the slope of the escarpment, descends 

 into a fosse 16 ft. deep. ^These are succeeded 

 by a vallum 18 ft. high, a fosse 7 ft. deep, 

 and an outer vallum 15 ft. perpendicular 

 measurement. 



At the south-west entrance the crescent- 

 shaped agger meets the curve of the southern 

 rampart at right-angles, while two aggers, 

 120 ft. and 250 ft. respectively, flank the left 

 side of the road, stretching in a line before 

 the gateway. The north entrance has the 

 end of the eastern vallum and broad fosse on 

 its right, while on the left are the ends of the 

 two crescent aggers commanding the gateway 

 from independent points. Across this entrance, 

 140 ft. distant, a line of entrenchments is 

 drawn, and other minor works are so arranged 

 as to protect the path which leads to a spring 

 of pure water. 



Lysons' description of Woodbury as a 

 small oval camp is misleading ; but Polwhele, 



who gives the interior area as about five acres, tells us that the circumference round the outer 

 edge of the ditch is 2,400 ft., and round the top of the rampart 2,100 ft. 



Woodbury was occupied as a camp between 1798 and 1803. 



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Greenway Camp, Brixham. 



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[ Class B (ii)] 



Brixham (O.S. cxxviii, 5, 9). — Three miles south-west of the town of Brixham, on a steep 

 slope descending to a tributary of the Dart, emptying itself on the east side of the estuary, is an 



irregular oval camp. 



The interior area of about three acres 

 slopes towards the south, and is surrounded 

 by a low vallum and broad fosse ; the 

 escarpment, assisted by the hill-side, is 

 10 ft. on the slope, but is lost on the 

 western side. The main entrance is at 

 the north-west, and from this point starts 

 an outer vallum and fosse, which continue 

 around the north to the east side, giving 

 additional security towards the higher 

 ground. A postern at the south-west 

 opens on a path to the river. 



This is supposed to be the work called 

 ' Greenway Camp ' in the Woolcombe 

 manuscript.'^ 



Flint flakes have been found here. 



BucKLAND Brewer (O.S. xxix, 5). 



— One mile south-east of the village of 



that name and 3^ miles west of Great 



Torrington station, an irregular elliptical 



camp is situated in Buckland Wood on the steep western bank of the River Duntz, and between 



two small tributaries which flow on the north and south. The camp is protected by a double 



" J. Davidson, Notes on the Antiquities of Devon before the Conquest. 



591 





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Camp at Buckland Brewer. 



