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Ditch No. 10 starts from underneath the rampart at D — D, 

 the end of the ditch being under the very crest of the 

 rampart. The rampart there must undoubtedly have been 

 built over the ditch, the end of the ditch not improbably being 

 'filled in for that purpose. There was no old surface line over the 

 iditch as there was under the rampart on either side of the ditch, 

 lor any distinguishable difference between the filling-in of the one, 

 or the building of the other. The course of this ditch is a fairly 

 straight one, and it ends in the cross ditch No. 9. Between this 

 junction and the rampart its course is interrupted by a causeway 

 giving access into the inner area of the camp. 



Ditch No. 11 is perhaps more remarkable than either of the 

 other ditches. It starts from the inner edge of the southern ram- 

 part at H, Key Plan, Pl.X, and after talcing two nearly right-angled 

 turns, curves towards the cross ditch No. 9, runs for a few yards 

 side by side with it, and finally merges into it not at a sharp angle, 

 as is the case in the junctions of all the other ditches, but gradually 

 coalescing with it to form one ditch, like the meeting of points on 

 a railway line. 



Traces of ditch No. 1, and more faintly of Nos. 3 and 10 have 

 occasionally been detected on the surface. No surface trace of 

 either of the other ditches has been seen, although it has been 

 looked for at all seasons of the year, under varying conditions. 

 An interesting exception, however, occurred in the case of ditch 

 No. 6 in the wet summer of 1910, when for a week or more its 

 course could be traced from about where it is cut across by the old 

 trackway to the outer rampart by a stream of blossoms of the 

 white Bladder Campion. Apparently the long succulent roots of 

 this plant liked the comparatively soft silt in the ditch, and those 

 growing in it flourished exceedingly and showed up in strong 

 contrast to their poorer neighbours round them. Unfortunately, 

 campions have never yet been found to show up either of the 

 other ditches in this way, and they failed altogether to do so even 

 in No. 6 in the dry summer of 1911, or in the following wet season 

 of 1912. 



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