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it into two nearly equal parts. 1 In Andrew & Dury's Map of 

 Wiltshire, dated 1773, this latter track is shown cutting across the 

 corner of the Plain from the road in the valley nearly opposite 

 Chisenbury into the main road between Charlton and Conock. The 

 map shows the road dividing into several ways that join up again 

 in the manner common to these unmetalled down roads. At 

 Casterley one track is shown leading through the old entrance at 

 G, and another through the gap at F, and one of these subdividing 

 again within the area of the camp, three tracks pass out through 

 gaps on the northern side. This is interesting, as showing how 

 gaps in a rampart become multiplied. One way gets worn into 

 ruts, and the traffic then diverges off into a parallel way, necessi- 

 tating other breaks in the same line of rampart. 



The considerable gap at A has, in its present state, the appear- 

 ance of having been an original entrance, since both ends of the 

 rampart are _thrown back on the inner side. This turning of the 

 rampart, however, has apparently resulted from its having been 

 thrown back to make way for the farm traffic, for which this gap 

 is still used. Sir K. Colt Hoare does not show these turned ends 

 of the rampart, as he doubtless would, had they been there in his 

 time, particularly as he expected an entrance on this north side of 

 the camp and as he states explicitly he could find no sign of one. The 

 outer ditch was cleared out and found to be continuous in front of 

 this deceptive " entrance." 



There are various other more or less pronounced breaks in the 

 rampart on every side, but none of these appear to have any claim 

 to antiquity, and in every case the outer ditch was found to be 

 unin tempted. 2 



1 This track is shown on Hoare's Map, Ancient Wilts, Amesbury North 

 District, Station V., p. 113, and on the 25in. Ordnance Maps. The line of 

 this track across the camp is still very noticeable as a bank or ridge. We 

 were told that when the ground was under cultivation this track served as 

 a boundary between the two fields, and the existing ridge may be the 

 result of ploughing on either side of it. 



5 There are many gaps in the feeble rampart along the head of the combe 

 that appear to be only the result of wear, and these were not examined. 



