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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE of the eastern extension of the steep Ilmington Hills, and it lies close to the ordnance survey cairn which marks an altitude of 761 feet. The works are square with slightly rounded corners ; they cover less than three-quarters of an acre. The fosse which encloses the area is very perfect, and within its interior is a second ditch. These small remains have fre- quently been de- scribed as Roman, and a few Roman coins and pot- sherds which have been turned up on the hill have sup- ported the theory. 1 This is however unlikely ; the place would seem rather to be the site of an early moated home- stead. IPSLEY (7 miles north of Al- cester). On the left bank of the little river Ar- row, and half a mile south of the village church, are important remains of an entrenched camp. Like that at Chesterton, this camp is placed in a sheltered valley instead of on a hill. It is approxi- mately a square in shape, but with its south-east angle cut away into a sloping curve ; two of its corners, those to the north-east and north-west, are rectangular ; it covers an area of about 4 acres. The defences consist of a rampart, which ex- tends for the greater part of the way round it, and there are slight p. 5 ; Timh.i Burgess in Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. (1873), p. 38 ; Timmins's Warw. p. 68. 378 IPSLEY SCALE OF reer 4OO ZOO 3O&