A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



vallum and intermediate fosse. The inner vallum rises nearly four feet from the interior, and 

 descends 8 ft. into the fosse, w^hich has a counterscarp 5 ft. in height. At the east end, w^here 

 the works are pierced by a modern path, both the ramparts and ditch are very shallow. 



The entrance at the north-west corner is curiously defended. The outer agger incurves at 

 right angles for a length of 100 ft., widening as it enters the camp, while the inner rampart 

 taking the same direction rises to 12 ft. at the point marked A and extends more than twice that 

 distance into the interior. The inner ramparts overlap the first for about eighty feet, and in the 

 interval between the first-mentioned agger and the commencement of the inner northern rampart is 

 a hollowed mound. An intruding enemy would therefore receive a double cross-fire for nearly 

 200 ft. before he could arrive within the camp. 



A narrow path is cut obliquely through the entrenchments, by which water was appar- 

 ently brought from the river. 



Some distance to the west of the camp a tunnel 130 ft. in length running east and west, 

 parallel with the river on the south of the camp, was discovered recently by the soil falling 

 into it, leaving some twenty feet with the roof intact. This subterranean passage, 5 ft. wide and 



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Castle Dyke, Chudleigh. 



3 ft. high, was about five feet beneath the surface ; from it two branches turned to the south at the 

 end nearest the camp, piercing the precipitous bank of the river, with the remains of a chamber 

 between them. Evidently for the storage of grain, this chamber and passage may possibly have also 

 served as a place of refuge. 



One of a trio of earthworks, this camp was within 2 miles of Hembury Castle on the south, 

 and the camp of Frithelstock on the other side of the River Duntz. 



Chudleigh (O.S. ci, 12). — Castle Dyke, or Ugbrooke Park Camp, lies within Ugbrooke Park, 

 \ a mile south-east from Chudleigh, and to the west of Smoothway Wood, on the east side of 

 Katebrook, a tributary of the River Teign. 



An elliptical camp of great strength, covering an area of 6 acres 2 roods 1 1 perches, being 

 780 ft long by 580 ft. broad, occupies the crown of a hill, and is called by the natives the ' Round 

 Field.' It is encompassed by a bold single vallum and fosse, the escarpment varying from forty-five 

 to fifty feet on the slope, and the average perpendicular height being 30 ft. 



Two entrances, one at each extremity of the longer' axis — south-west to north-east — are both 

 defended by the widening and incurving of the rampart, thereby creating a small platform at either 

 side of the gateway. Polwhele may be right in assigning an opening through the middle of the 

 southern rampart to another entrance, but there are two such posterns, the antiquity of which is doubtful. 



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