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 A HISTORY OF SUSSEX from some important camps, or signalling-posts, such as White Hawk, Edburton, Chanctonbury Ring, etc. The natural steepness of the hillsides on the north-west, north- east, and south-east renders the site one of great strength, and has made it unnecessary to add much artificial work. Accordingly, although the line of fosse and rampart runs completely round the large irregularly shaped oblong enclosure, attention has chiefly been directed to the south-west and south-south-west sides, where the camp has been cut off from the adjacent level ground of the Downs ; the rampart has been .4/ ..•t>V
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, OijHe ParK Hotel ^^'■ .^^ .J^' v, 'V '/; '"i";^'/.. "'^•^2«*i ,*»d&^ ^' ^:s:^i':; JT' The Devil's Dyke. made of a considerable size, and a deep ditch has been constructed on the outside. This important part of the defences of the Devil's Dyke Camp is interesting as showing how very closely artificial work followed the natural features of the site, furnishing precisely those defensive features which the natural contour failed to give, and at the same time utilizing all those natural features which already existed. In this work the ram- part and fosse are most developed about the middle of the south-west and south-south-west sides, where naturally there was a practically level surface extending from the main chain of the Downs to the spur which is now enclosed by the earthwork. A little to the north-west of this point the surface slopes towards the Weald, and the artificial work is of a much less formidable character in consequence. The highest 462
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