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 LOWBURV CAMP, ASTON UPTHORPE. A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE paddock, but all those which have been noticed as possible camps have been set down, and future investigations will perhaps determine whether they should remain on the list or not. ASTON UPTHORPE, LOWBURY CAMP. The most conspicuous camp of rectangular form is that on Lowbury Hill. The earthworks are not very prominent, but the vallum and fosse, though small, N to>v6ury Hilt can be traced quite clearly, and form an accurate rect- angle. Fragments of Roman tiles, mortar, pottery, and coins have been found here in abundance, and quantities of oyster-shells can be picked out of a heap in one corner of the camp. The camp lies near the Icknield-way, a branch of which runs east for a mile or more in a perfectly straight line known as the Fair Mile. 1 FINCHAMPSTEAD. There is supposed to be a Roman camp around the church at Finchampstead, which stands near the road from London to Silchester. There is nothing left now but a rectangular plateau with a steep es- carpment on all sides except the eastern portion of the north side, where the road has somewhat disturbed the original shape of the surface. 3 HAMPSTEAD NORRIS. To the west of the church there are the remains of a ditch with a slight vallum within it, forming three sides of a rectangle. The churchyard has been enlarged within recent years so as to cross the ditch, which has been filled up through this part of its length. Nothing can be seen of the fourth side, which, if it existed, must have run to the east of the church near the present road. HINTON WALDRIST, ACHESTER. This is a small and little known rectangular camp, consisting of a fosse with a vallum inside it, situated in a wood on low-lying ground between the village of Hinton Waldrist and the Faringdon and Oxford road. MAIDENHEAD. There is a small rectangular camp with concave sides on Maidenhead Thicket, in the direction of Pinkney's Green. It consists of a fosse with a small vallum inside and another outside. 3 TILEHURST. There is a well preserved rectangular camp in a wood near Tilehurst station. WALLINGFORD. The town of Wallingford was surrounded on three sides by a high vallum, a considerable part of which still remains, and without this by a moat filled with water by inversion of a stream which flowed from the west. The river formed the defence on the fourth 1 Hewitt, Hundred of Compton, 113-5. 2 Berks, Bucks and Oxon Arch. Journal, ii. 28. Lyon, Hist, of Finchampstead. 3 Berks Arch. Quart. Journ. ii. 74. Berks, Bucks and Oxon. Arch. Journ. vii. 95. 264 so uorn IT FINCHAMPSTEAD.