A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



guarded, for the western vallum may yet be seen extended in a 

 curve, hugging the termination of the southern rampart and fosse. 

 Faint traces of an outer rampart appear on the side of the hill. 



South Molton (O.S. xxii, 13). — Tw^o miles south of the tow^n 

 of that name, to the south-east of East Trayne and north-wrest of 

 South Woodhouse, on the north of the River Mole, is an irregular 

 camp, called ' a post ' by Lysons. It now consists of a broad ram- 

 part, broadened and lowered by the plough, which has obliterated 

 the entrance. 



Stockland, (O.S. lix, 9). — Stockland Little Castle, fully a 

 quarter mile north of the ' Great Castle,' is circular, the axis north- 

 west by south-east measuring 372 ft., and the other 331 ft. It was 

 encompassed by a single agger from 8 to 10 ft. high, composed of *" 

 earth and stones, the interior being built with a dry wall of stone, 

 but it is not known whether this was ancient, or whether the loose 

 stones of the partially destroyed vallum were collected from the area 

 when the site was first cultivated. The fosse has been filled in except a 



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and piled here in 1820, 

 length of 140 ft. on the 

 north side, where 

 the escarpment was' 

 recently 35 ft. on 

 the slope. The 

 entrance was at 

 the south-west. 



Stoke Can- 

 on (O.S. Ixviii, 14). 

 — Cultivation has 

 again made havoc 

 with a camp situ- 

 ated nearly 2 miles 

 north of Exeter, 

 to the east of the 

 Rivers Exe and 

 Culme, on Stoke 

 Hill. The escarp- 

 ment partially re- 

 mains, and the only 

 indication of an 

 entrance is on the 



eastern extremity. 



Stoke Fleming (O.S. cxxvii, 15). — Woodbury Camp, 2 miles west of Dartmouth, is an 

 elliptical camp on a gradually sloping eminence. The north side, with its two angles, is defended by 

 a rampart and fosse, the south-west by a shallow ditch only, and the south-east has been denuded of 

 protection by the action of the 

 plough. The strongest part lies 

 some distance back, but facing 

 the high road. 



The northern vallum rises 

 9 ft. from the interior of the 

 camp, and stands 14 ft. above 

 the base of a fosse 5 ft. deep. 

 At its eastern end it curves to 

 the south, the rampart widens and 

 the fosse terminates, an indication 

 that an entrance was at this point. 



At the north-west curve is 

 a strong agger 200 ft. long, 

 which rises 10 ft. from the in- 

 terior and descends 28 ft. per- 

 pendicular measurement into a 

 fosse I o ft. deep ; at its northern 

 end is another entrance, and at 

 the southern the circumvallation 

 consists of a trench only. 





Woodbury Camp, Stoke Fleming. 



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