ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



projected vallum, but the earth which would have been thrown over the stones in the making of 

 the fosse was never worked, and it has remained unfinished to the present day. 



The contour of the ground of the interior area is so pronounced that the northern boundary 

 cannot be seen from the southern ramparts. 



No water is within the camp, the nearest spring being about 2,000 ft. distant. 



Cranbrook Castle was explored in 1900, when the fosse was found to be encumbered with 

 about three feet of dibris. Two hut-circles are within the east rampart with the remains of fire- 

 holes. Charcoal, fragments of pottery, the base of a quern, and sling stones were found. 



This stronghold above the right bank of the Teign overlooks Prestonbury Castle, which is 

 almost opposite on the left bank. 



MoRETON Hampstead (O.S. Ixxviii, 15). — Wooston Castle : The castles of Wooston, 

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the south side of the Teign and the last on the north side form a triangle, and while the latter two 

 are at the sides, Wooston is situated on a protecting curve commanding a view up the river. 



Wooston Castle is an extensive camp on the slope of a hill descending to the brink of the 

 deep river bank. The lower part, to the north, appears to have been a square area, but the out- 

 lines of the east side are lost in Hitchcombe Wood. The south side is an agger and fosse extending 

 from the original entrance at the south-east to the south-west angle, where the fosse rises into a 

 platform along the edge of the bank until it is lost on the north. 



About 200 ft. to the south are another agger and fosse, the former 12 ft. high, through which is 

 a gateway with broadened ramparts, set obliquely with that which has been the entrance K in the 

 camp. In both of these defences the fosse is to the south of the agger, confronting an invader from 

 the higher ground. The fosse now becomes a covertway partly lined with masonry as it curves 

 serpent-like up the hill to a strong agger 15 ft. in height by the side of the present road. At the 



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