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ANCIENT EARTHWORKS A plan of the camp appeared in the Transactions of the Woo/hope Field Club, also a sketch map showing the position of camps and tumuli to the west and north of Brandon." Leominster : Ivington Camp. — Ivington is a chapelry of Leominster, about 3 miles south-west of the town. The stronghold occupies the western end of a swell of high land about 540 ft. above sea level, and 350 ft. above the River Lugg, which flows about a mile and a half to the east. The position is naturally defended by the fall of the hill on the north-west, west, and south-east. The entrenchments, in a fair state of preservation as a whole, but mutilated in some places, are of powerful construction, varying in strength according to the conditions of the portion to be defended. The extreme west corner has been quarried for limestone, and is now in a chaotic state,^* l! 549 ft ■■ «to<'> SlO (.tvt. 1= n Sm^J^ , i^s':!il V sCALf or nti o 100 200 see Ivington Camp, Leominster " Op. cit. (1881-2). The plan given by Gough, Camden, Brit, ii, 453, Is manifestly inaccurate. " The plan given in the Trans. Woolhope Field Club (18 8 1-2) shows that the western corner had not thert been subjected to the process of quarrying. The embankment was widened out to form a nearly circular mount of about 3 5 ft. diameter, and must have formed an interesting feature. I 217 28