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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS A few hundred yards to the west is a deep trench running away from the camp down a steep hill, parallel to the road to Highworth. It has all the appearance of a packhorse track, and seems to indicate that Badbury, like so many other hill camps, stood near an ancient way. EASTHAMPSTEAD, CESAR'S CAMP. This, the only camp of importance in the eastern part of the county, differs in many respects from the others described. It lies upon the edge of a high plateau, and its ramparts follow the contours of the ground, producing a camp shaped somewhat like an oak leaf. It is defended by a vallum and fosse, and in most places by an outside vallum, though this is sometimes absent when the ground falls away very steeply. Across the neck of the plateau, where the natural defences are weaker, there are two fosses. <3? ^^*<&Ni ta >$^a J^Slf'S* ^^ 4 1 ^Ma, mK5L3S$?&v& r^^^M STJff Grimabvn/ o Hft-?^*A ^SK^Ct^*l|Sv? StCTIOMAT A.3. GRIMSBURY CASTLE, HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. The principal entrance is to the south, from the level ground, but there is another to the extreme north. The breaks in the defences to the east and west are probably modern. This seems to be the camp at which was found the silver coin of Cunobelin mentioned by Gough. 1 The Roman road, known as the Devil's Highway, running from London to Silchester, passes at no great distance south of the camp, and a branch from this, said to be of Roman date, runs direct to the south entrance of the camp. HAMPSTEAD NORRIS, GRIMSBURY CASTLE. This camp is situated on the top of a wooded hill about a mile east of Hermitage Station. Its form is an irregular triangle with rounded corners, following the con- Cough's Camden, i. 237, 238. Lysons, Mag. Brit. i. 214. i 257 33