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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS from an inspection on the spot. Its ramparts enclose an area of about sixty acres, and there are no less than four entrances to the camp. One entrance is on the eastern side where the narrow neck of land joins the camp. The ramparts here are specially strong to cover the entrance. Along the south-eastern side is another entrance, and almost at the southern extremity is a third. At both of these entrances the ramparts are developed in order to command the approach. A fourth entrance is near the most northern end of the camp. Cissbury Camp shows considerable skill in the way the ramparts and fosses are planned. The ramparts are made not at the top of the " ■■'^" ■" ::S;;:>„ w '"^ "^-^ je %5;^ '^^^;;?^ ?V^^ .^^ «^^5-' 'HH'M,. ».u^^i',Jr""> '■"*':'% ^^y SECTION /.T A- B. Cissbury Camp. slope, where it would have been necessary to throw up a vast quantity of earth, but half-way down the slope, and the material removed from an internal ditch has been thrown outwards to form them, thus effect- ing a great economy of labour. One curious feature which distinguishes Cissbury from many of the prehistoric camps of the South Downs is the large number of pits with which the slope on the western side of the area within the ram- part is honeycombed. These pits, which vary from 20 to 70 feet in diameter, were carefully examined by General Pitt-Rivers' in 1867 Arch. xlii. 53-76. 465 59