A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



This border camp is immediately opposite to another on the Cartha Martha, or Mount 

 Hermitage, rocks on the Cornish side. 



Exeter. — Though the chief remains appertain to the castle and its immediate surroundings 



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Stock Castle, Lynton. 



and must presently be mentioned under Class E, it is well to note here that the line followed by 

 the far earlier defences of the ancient town may be traced. 



In this favoured position the Britons probably established a trading centre {Caer he), protecting 

 themselves by constructing the usual rampart with outer fosse, excepting perhaps on the west, where 

 the river or estuary afforded defence. 



Numerous relics testify to the importance of the town in Roman times {Isca Damnorum) when 

 probably it was defended by a wall of masonry. It is said that 

 Athelstan, about 926, fortified Exanceaster with a wall of stone and 

 with towers, but probably he simply reinstated and strengthened the 

 Roman wall. 



Far WAY (O.S. Ixx, 16). — Farway Castle, on the left of the 

 ancient Icknield Street passing from Colyford, over Farway Hill 

 towards Ottery St. Mary, stands on the flat of a hill on Broad 

 Down, in the midst of numerous tumuli. It is a circular entrench- 

 ment 200 ft. in diameter, surrounded by an agger of low elevation 

 and a shallow fosse. A bronze palstave was found near to it. 



Frithelstock (O.S. xxix, 6). — Due south of Buckland Wood 

 and 4 miles west of Torrington, is the site of a camp called Ring 

 Down. It was circular with a rampart and ditch, which have been ploughed over and are now 

 scarcely traceable exctpt by the sparseness of the crop on the stony ground. Situated on the slope 

 of a high hill, east of the River Duntz, this camp was one of three neighbouring strongholds, 

 Hembury Castle being i mile south-west, and the rectangular camp in Buckland Wood J mile 

 north-west. 



Halweil (O.S. 

 cxxvii, 9). — Halwell 

 Camp, or Castle, is 

 nearly 5 miles south 

 of Totnes, on the road 

 from Modbury to 

 Dartmouth, which 

 cuts through the cen- 

 tre of the circumval- 

 lation. 



On the north of 

 the road a strong val- 

 lum, rising 6 ft. from 

 the interior, and 10 ft. 

 perpendicular height 

 on the exterior, de- 

 scribes a stilted semi- 

 circle. The entrance is due north, and eastward of it is the fragment of a fosse. South of the road 

 portions of the rampart may be traced, but it is almost destroyed. 



Halwell fO.S. cxxvi, 16). — Remains of small circular camp in Ritson Brake. 



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