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ANCIENT EARTHWORKS SCALE OF FtET 100 200 300 THE CAMP, BELTON SIMPLE DEFENSIVE INCLOSURES (CLASS C) BELTON (xvii, 5). Four miles north from Whitwick, on the gentle slope of a hill, near the highest part, and facing north, is a circular camp. It is now a simple plateau with no breastwork, but surrounded by a fosse 1 5 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, except on the west, where the counterscarp has been destroyed. To the west of the camp flows the Grace Dieu Brook. BURTON OVERY (xxxviii, 10). Seven and a half miles south-east from Leicester. In a field south-west of the church, on gravel soil sloping down to a rivulet on the west, are the val- lum and fosse of a square camp. The eastern and western sides are clearly defined for about 300 ft., the vallum on the west is 5 ft. high and 12 ft. wide, that on the east is 4 ft. high and 1 2 ft. wide, the latter being strengthened by a fosse 20 ft. wide and 4 ft. 6 in. deep at its most perfect point. The southern vallum, 10 ft. wide and 2 ft. high from the interior, with a shallow external fosse, is most pronounced at the south-west corner, where apparently the main entrance was situated. The northern vallum has almost gone, but enough remains to show what appears to have been a minor entrance at the north-west angle, although it is now too indistinct for definite decision. From the north-east angle an agger, 4 ft. in height, runs parallel to the interior of the eastern vallum for a distance of 80 ft., looking towards the higher ground from which the camp was most easily assailed. HALLATON (xxxix, 14). About i, 600 ft. south-west from ' Castle Hill Camp ' (see Class E), upon the height of a gently un- dulating hill is a rectangular camp with a long axis of 300 ft. and a short axis of 220 ft. It has been surrounded by a vallum rising 2 ft. from the interior, with an es- carpment of 5 ft. 6 in. ; the rampart, how- ever, has been destroyed in the middle of the two long sides. The entrance at the eastern angle is defended by the vallum rising a foot above the general height, and is situated at the point nearest to the Castle Hill. HUNGERTON (xxxii, 10). The remains of a strong Roman camp north- west of the British stronghold at Billesdon have been utilized as a manor-house defence, and are therefore described in Class G. 251 THE CAMP, HALLATON