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A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE a broad terraced ledge which continues round about two-thirds of the east and west sides, where the descent is at the sharpest. This terrace may be the remains of an external fosse, or it may have been always a road, as it now is, for it slopes away down the hill on the west soon "oesar's camp* SANDY SCALE OF FEET after leaving the mound. On the eastern heights the rampart, if there was one, has disappeared, but on the west it continues along the top of the ridge up to the boundary on the north, and there are clear signs of its course in the fields for some 500 feet beyond, until it dies out at the 272