By Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cuhnington. 61 



The Inner Works. 



There is no reason to believe that the interior of Casterley had 

 ever been cultivated before Sir B. Colt Hoare saw it for the first 

 time, but from some date between then and his last-recorded visit 

 in 1807, 1 until the War Office acquired the land in 1901, it was 

 under cultivation. 



It is indeed fortunate that Sir K. Colt Hoare published a plan 

 of the camp as he first saw it, for during those ninety years or so 

 of cultivation the ground has been ploughed and rolled until all 

 the surface inequalities have been smoothed away, and the last 

 vestiges of the banks and ditches of the inner works practically 

 obliterated. But although the surface is now levelled, it is possible 

 at some seasons of the year to trace the lines of the rectilinear 

 enclosure by the difference in colour and growth of the grass over 

 the ditch. Guided by such slight traces as these, and working 

 with Sir B. Colt Hoare's invaluable but necessarily incomplete 

 plan, it has been found possible, by tracing the course of the various 

 ditches, to re-construct the main outlines of the inner works. 



The arrangement of these inner works is curious and complicated, 

 and can only be understood by reference to the plan. PI. X. 



It will be seen that the ditches form three principal enclosures 

 that may be regarded as complete in themselves, in spite of various 

 sub-divisions. Of these three enclosures one is more or less recti- 

 linear, while the other two are of irregular outline, and for the 

 sake of convenience these two latter will be referred to as A and B. 



The other ditches appear rather to divide the area of the camp 

 than to form distinct and separate enclosures in themselves. 



The Rectilinear Enclosure. Ditches Nos. 1 and 2. 



The rectilinear enclosure must be regarded as the original and 

 most important of the inner works, as it is clear that the other 

 works were planned in relation to it, and not it in relation to 

 them. The irregular enclosures, for instance, must have been 

 planned either later, or as subordinate to it, because the part of 



1 Extracts from a Note-Book, Wilts Arch. Mag., xxii., 234. 



