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 A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE original entrance. A footpath also enters the work on this side near the north-west angle, where the rampart is again pierced and the moat partly filled, but this seems to be too near the edge of the scarp to be original. There is a further breach on the north-east, where the angle is entirely removed with all the eastern rampart. This breach shows the section of the vallum, which is here 9 feet above the bottom of the fosse, and about 4 or 5 feet above the interior level. It is composed of the sand and shaly ironstone which is native to the site. The fort could only have been approached on anything like even terms from the level ridge on the north-west. The whole area of the camp was under cultivation up to forty or fifty years ago. Trial trenches dug under Lord Peel's GALLEY HILL, SANDY instructions within the entrances in the north-west vallum have revealed nothing of interest. There is the same want of water as in the case of 'Caesar's Camp,' and the Ivel is even further off. Chesterfield is the name of the level ground between these two hill stations, now partly occupied by the cemetery. All over this large area, including the part cut off by the Great Northern Railway, Roman remains continue to be found. On the heights round about Lord Peel's residence, Roman coins are dug up, mostly of the middle or later emperors, although there is no record of their having been found within the Galley Hill camp. There are also signs of other earthworks on these heights, which call for further ex- amination. 274