A HISTORY OF DEVONSHIRE 



town of Tiverton. Situated on high ground, very broken and wild, the camp of no nameable plan 

 is surrounded by a vallum 8 ft. in height, except on the south-west, at which point a wooded steep 

 descends in a valley through which a stream pursues its way to join the River Lowman. 



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Higher Bury Camp, Tedburn. 



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The entrance at the north-east is between the incurved ends of the vallum, 

 end, 6o ft. long, turns at an acute angle from the course of the rampart. 



ToRRiNGTON. — Gaze Castle, one mile south of Berry Castle camp in the neighbouring parish 



of Huntshaw, and in view of the same, is now 

 destroyed and under cultivation ; but 15 ft. of it 

 may be traced through the crops. ^ 

 \^ Ugborough (O.S. cxx, 13). — Fully i mile 



^-JinjJ south of South Brent and west of Turtley, a 

 »\? circular camp is upon a slight rising in a valley. 

 »£ It is strongest on its southern side, where a 

 5E rampart rises 3 ft. from within, and has an en- 

 is campment 6 ft. 6 in. with a fosse 3 ft. 6 in. deep. 

 js This agger guarded the entrance at the south-west, 

 sc but in its easterly course it is gradually lost, leaving 

 3c the remainder of the camp defended only by a 

 3S ditch 8 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep ; and even that is 

 almost levelled at the north. 



To the north of it flows the Glaze Brook, 

 a tributary of the River Avon ; while on 

 the north and the west, rising from Brent 

 Moor and Ugborough Moor, are the heights 

 of Brent Hill, Ugborough Beacon, and Butterton 

 Hill. 





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HuNTSHAM Castle, Tiverton. 



Washfield (O.S. xxxiv, 

 6). — ^The site of a former 

 camp may be traced in a field 

 called ' Castle Close,' between 

 Barehill Wood and Huntland 

 Copse, nearly 2 miles north 

 of Tiverton, 



Two spear-heads of the 

 * leaf-shaped ' type and a short 

 sword were found in the en- 

 trenchment near the ford of 

 the Exe at Worth. 



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Moor (O.S. cviii, 5). — Be- 

 tween 4 and 5 miles north-west 

 of Ashburton are the remains 

 of two entrenchments, both 



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' Mrs. Armitage calls attention to an entry in the Cal. of Chse, iii (1228), p. (,T, for the razing to the 

 ground of a castle at Torrington which had been erected without licence. 



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