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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Oyster Hill Camp. See Dinedor. Penyard Chase. See Ross. Pyon Wood Camp. See Aymestrey. RisBURY Camp. See Humber. Ross : Penyard Chase. — A mile south-east of Ross, in Chase Wood, adjoining Penyard Park, are the remains of a camp referred to by Gough in his additions to Camden's Britannia,^*' mentioned in the Woolhope Field Club's Transactions.^^ The work which has survived is more of the nature of artificial scarping than the usual ramparting, and is largely destroyed by cultivation. The writer in the Transactions states that in the approach to the camp the solid rock has in one place been cut through in ancient times to a depth of at least 12 ft. The position is close to Gatley Grove, and near the boundaries of the parishes of Ross and Walford, Penyard Park lying on the east of the camp. St. Ethelbert's Camp. See Dormington. Staunton-on-Arrow : Wapley Hill. — This fortress occupies the highest part of a hill 2 miles south-east of Presteigne, about 1,000 ft. above sea level. The position is remarkably strong, the slope of the hill falling on all sides 5 00 ft. to 600 ft., very steeply on the north, and more gradually on the other sides. Five ramparts with intervening fosses guard the eastern side, turning partly along the southern, on which side is the interesting entrance way, manifestly the work of Celtic hands. The plan shows this entrance with its carefully arranged protecting banks, and the oblique inturning of the inner rampart. From the entrance four ramparts extend westward, ending on the northern scarp. Along the north side a single rampart may have existed, but now it is little more than a scarp, and the fosse outside has become a terrace by the washing-down of the material above. As the ?-" Wapley Hill, Staunton-on-Arrow " Op. cit. (ed. 1789), ii, 449. " Trans. Woolhope Field Club (1900-1), 200. 219