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SECTION THROUGH RAMPART. ANCIENT EARTHWORKS WINKFIELD. There are the remains of a camp on a steep hill immediately to the east of the Ascot and Bagshot road, to the north of Tower Hill House. The camp is described by Gough as being irregular in shape, 1 following the contour of the hill, which is very steep except to the north-north-east, where the entrance was. The fosse was about twelve feet wide. At the top could be seen a few years ago fragments of concrete and bricks, which appeared to be the remains of the tower marked as ' New Towre' on Norden's Map (1607), and it has been suggested that perhaps the ditch was excavated when the tower was erected. LITTLE WITTENHAM, SINODUN HILL CAMP. This camp, which has a commanding position on the top of an almost isolated chalk hill, overlooks the Valley of the Thames a few miles north of Wallingford. Its construction dif- fers from the others that have been described. In this case a deep fosse has been excavated around the hill, half-way between the top and the bottom, and no true vallum has been thrown up. The accompanying plan and section will ex- plain the construction, from which it will be seen that the chalk taken from the fosse has been used to raise the level of the interior of the camp, while that removed from outside has been piled upon the vallum left between the fosse and the base of the hill. The entrance is on the south-west, but is not defended by any additional earthworks. Leland and Camden have mentioned that Roman coins were found there in great profusion." RECTANGULAR CAMPS, ETC. [CLASS C] Rectangular camps are not numerous in Berkshire, and several of those described are not very clearly marked. Some, indeed, such as that at Hampstead Norris, may be only a ditch enclosing a rectangular i Cough's Camden, i. 237. Leland, It. ii. 13, 14. Cough's Camden, i. 214, 223. Lysons' Mag. Bnt. 214, 440. 263 ^ SCAUC or rter o IQO too SINODUN HILL CAMP.