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ANCIENT EARTHWORKS north, and the broad part at the south, on which side the quarries have destroyed the fortifications. The artificial defences consist generally of a double vallum and fosse of great strength. The eastern entrance is reached by a steep curved path which is com- manded by a bold vallum, a curved agger where the former meets the natural slope, and a berm with a mound contained within the sickle-shaped curve of the path, making a disputed entry a formidable undertaking. On the north of this path the vallum rises 1 7 ft. from the interior, and is 1 8 ft. wide, but the escarpment is now only i6ft., this and the outer vallum having been partly destroyed by quarrying. Beyond the quarry, however, the earthworks are complete ; the inner vallum has a scarp of 22ft. into a wide fosse 3 ft. deep, whilst the outer vallum descends a long distance before it is merged in the hillside. After a straight course of 230 ft., a semicircular hollow, possibly the site of a guard room, screened by a bank, lies at the base of the first vallum ; the fosse emerges upon the angle of a path to the interior, with another small chamber space in the thickness of the second vallum. This path, hugging the escarpment, ascends from the north to the south, and at the above- mentioned angle turns to the north, at which point the original scheme of defence is lost by the erection of a building. On the north side of the building the vallum incurves towards the south-west, with a wide platform at the angle ; the principal entrance is here, and the road is thus dominated by the direction of the vallum, which, rising 9 ft. from the interior, has a scarp of 28 ft., a counterscarp 1 2 ft. high, an outer scarp of 7 ft., and the remains of a third vallum now but a foot in height. The other side of the entrance road falls away to the depths below, with stages at various levels, but this also is commanded by a vallum and a yet higher platform which branch off from the main defences on the western side. Interesting as this approach may be at the present time, other details of engineering skill are evidently lost by the displacement of the ground in testing the quality of the limestone at this side. At the north-west is a single vallum of great strength ; but at the south-west the double vallum and fosse are again in evidence on the verge of a pre- cipitous descent. BURROUGH, or BURROW ON THE HILL (xxvii, 9 and 10), is 5 miles south of Melton Mow- bray, and nearly a mile north of the village. Burrough Camp, on a com- manding hill of limestone and ironstone, is a fortified position of great strength, and the notice accorded tO it by the earlier BURROUGH CAMP, BURROUGH ON THE HILL 247 Burrow Human Rtmains.FUnt Arrowhead . Roman 0/18 Dagger, Sftarhtaa.t" fauna e at 666-