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A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



It bears a strong resemblance to the plan of Clovelly Dykes, and has a triple vallum and 

 fosse. The interior area is an irregular quadrangle 462 ft. long by 402 ft. wide, surrounded by a 

 vallum 5 ft. above the interior, and a fosse varying from sixteen to twenty-three feet deep. The 



surrounding area, or 

 courtyard, is from 

 100 ft. to 150 ft. wide. 

 The second vallum, 

 which departs from the 

 square formation and 

 has angles nearer a 

 circular form, is sur- 

 rounded by a fosse vary- 

 ing from eleven to 

 seventeen feet deep ; 

 this is connected with 

 the first fosse by a sunk 

 road or ditch at £ in 

 the north corner, and 

 the remains of a trans- 

 verse consisting of a 

 ditch and double agger 

 connect them at the 

 south-east. On the 

 western side of this in- 

 termediate area is a 

 large dry pond, G. In 

 the third vallum the 

 square form is lost to a 

 greater extent ; this 

 varies in distance from 

 the second, the area 

 being 50 ft. wide in 

 some places and 180 ft. 

 in others. The two entrances were probably on the north-west and south-east, where the road 

 from Newton Abbot to Torquay cuts the camp in halves. That on the north-west was apparently 

 through a sunk road, about five hundred feet in length, which curves on the north of the present 

 road, and is flanked by the remains of two ditches. That on the south-east is not so easily traced, but 

 it was evidently of the same nature though somewhat more involved, and on the south of it, outside 

 the boundary wall, is an outpost in the form of a large flat mound. 



The whole of this camp appears to have been surrounded by a vallum, or boundary wall, some 

 four hundred and fifty feet beyond the entrenchments already described. On the west it is strengthened 

 by a fosse, and on the south by an almost square work and a curved transverse in addition to the 

 outpost mentioned above. The north and 

 west of this vallum has perished, but that por- 

 tion at the north of the western entrance indi- 

 cates the course it took. The entrances through 

 the main entrenchments from the large court 

 on the south to the interior of the camp take a 

 slightly oblique direction. 



The outermost vallum to the court is said 

 to have been thrown up in 1688, when 

 William III landed at Torbay and planted a 

 park of artillery in this camp, but it appears to 

 have been an integral part of the original 

 scheme of defence. 



About the year 1845 some coins, 

 knives, and forks of the seventeenth century 

 were found here, relics of William's occu- 

 pation. 



CouNTisBURY (O.S. iii, 12). — Old Barrow 

 Camp, 4 miles east of Lynmouth, on Old Barrow Hill, is one of the most perfect camps in Devonshire. 

 Situated on the summit of a lofty hill rising out of the sea to a height of over 1,100 ft. — 

 though but little above the surrounding moors — the camp of Old Barrow is cinctured by a triple 



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