A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE bouring county of Hampshire, and is at one place 975 feet above the sea level, the greatest altitude in the south-eastern part of England. The boundary of the two counties runs through it from east to west, along an ancient trackway which traverses the camp, and is said to have been used * for centuries by drovers with their flocks travelling from the west of England.' l
- It is irregularly bell-shaped, and its dimensions are about 550
yards from north to south, and 783 yards between the gates. It has two gateways which trend nearly east and west, and which open towards the ridges of the neighbouring downs, evidently with the object of com- manding the entire view of the surrounding country and every approach to the hills.' 1 There are breaks in the northern rampart, which have been thought to be minor gates. The gates are on the eastern and western sides and here the ramparts are higher than elsewhere. On the north side of the eastern gate the defences appear double, and at the west gate the ramparts return so as to form a re-entering angle. There is a pond within the enclosure, and one without each gate at a little distance by the side of the road. The camp commands most of the approaches to the Downs from the south, while on the north an uninterrupted view extends for many miles on three sides. In July 1871 Dr. Stevens 'found flint implements scattered over the face of the soil for some distance round the flagstaff in this entrench- ment. They consist of well-wrought scrapers, some cores, flakes, arrow- tips and a neatly trimmed spear-head.' 1 Gough alludes to this camp by the name of Wallborough or 6ury, and says it is called by Aubrey Corn hill." LAMBOURN, MEMBURY FORT. The greater portion of this camp lies in the parish of Ramsbury in Wiltshire, but the north-eastern corner is in Lambourn parish. It is situ- ated on the high ground between the valleys of the Kennet and the Lambourn, about half a mile south- west of the Ridge-way Road running from Speen to Cirencester. It is defended by two well- preserved valla, with a deep fosse between them, but the whole camp is so thickly covered with trees and undergrowth that it is not easy to obtain a good view of the entrench- MEMBURY FORT, LAMBOURN. ments. There is an important gate on the north-east, the approach to which is defended by a rampart to the west. There is also an entrance about 1 50 yards south of the latter, through which the parish and county boundary passes. 1 Stevens, Parochial History of St. Mary Bourne, 42-44.
- Gough, Camden's Britannia, i. 206. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, iii. 96.
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