ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



wheat sown upon it fails to yield an adequate crop. At present, vallum and fosse may be traced 

 by a slight rise and fall in the ground, and the sparseness of the growth ; and the sites of two 

 entrances are visible. 



Berrynarbor (O.S. V, 3). — ' The Castle ' is an irregular camp on a height overlooking the 

 harbour of Sandy Bay in Combe Martin Bay, on the north coast. The ground slopes down 



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towards the south, on which side was the entrance, the west of which is defended by a strong 

 curved agger with an escarpment of 10 ft. and a counterscarp 8 ft. in height. The highest part at 

 the north is covered with a dense copse ; but the natural hill was apparently considered impreg- 

 nable ; the east side also depends on nature for defence. A small stream flows at its eastern base. 



Bishops Nympton (O.S. xxii, 3). — Nearly two miles from Bishops Nympton Station, to the 

 south of Exmoor ; on the high ground half a mile north of the River Yeo is a camp of irregular 

 elliptical form. It has consisted of a simple agger and fosse, though only a short piece of the latter 

 is extant. At the south-east the entrance has been through the overlapping ends of the rampart. 



Two small streams, one at either side, flow south into the Yeo, and assist in strengthening the 

 position by isolation. 



Bradford. — In Castle Wood, on the western bank of the River Torridge, a little over one 

 mile north of Bradford village, the scant remains of a camp may be traced, of an irregular circular 

 plan, called ' Hengiscot.' 



Branscombe. — Castle Close : A camp of apparently quadrangular form, about one mile north 

 of Berry ClifF, was all but destroyed about 1850, and a portion of a trench then left has sufiFered 

 the same fate. At the time of destruction numerous bones were dug out of the trench, with 

 fragments of brown and yellow pottery. A barrow containing a cist was levelled at the same 

 time. A Roman coin of Victorinus was also found. 



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Camp at Chittlehampton. 



BucKLAND MoNACHORUM (O.S. cxi, 4). — Three and half miles south of Tavistock the site 

 of a small camp is situated on the east of the River Tavy ; east of Balstone Wood and north-west 

 of Higher Hele. 



Charles (O.S. x, 15). — On very high ground in Mockham Down Plantation, fully two miles 

 south-east of Bratton Fleming, is a camp we must describe as a rounded rectangle. It is surrounded 



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