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Camps about three Furlongs afunder : The one v'ery 
ftrong, with double Ditches, and triple Valiums , 
upon the Top of an Hill, three Ways guarded by a 
natural Afcent ; the other upon a lower Ground, clofe 
by a River (which defends it on one Side), with a 
Ditch and Vallum half round, and a kind of Morafs 
on the other. The fir If contains about ten Acres; 
the latter about feven ; and the Land lying betwixt 
them is, and has been time out of Mind, called 
Ambrofe Farm : Befides an Arm of the River, or 
rather of the Sea (it being Salt-Water), running clofe 
up to the latter, is called Ambrofe flock . 
From all which it appears not improbable, that 
this may have been a principal Station belonging to 
Aurelius Ambrofius. 
The inclos’d is a true Reprefentation both of their 
Form and Situation {fee Tab. II. Fig. 2, 3.) : The large 
one is about a Mile from Limington ; and, crofs the 
River oppofite to the Town, and facing the Sourh-eaft 
Angle of it, is an artificial Hill, known by the Name of 
Windmill Nap ; which I take to have been a Bea- 
con, by reafon it commands almoft all the Ife of 
Wight , the full Paffage of the Needles , and great 
Part of t he there level Champagne, befides the Camp 
itfelf. 
Camden (tho s he takes no Notice of thefe Camps, 
yet mentions one of much lefs Confequence, about 
twelve Miles Diftance, called Caflle-Malwood) fays, 
<£ It is moft certain, that, about the Year 508, An- 
‘ relius Ambrofius had here many Conflids with the 
Saxons , with various Succefs.” Bur, again, the 
People of this Country have a Tradition, That, three 
Miles to the Weft, of this Camp, a famous Battle 
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