A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE RING. It has been enclosed with a rampart, in part double, and deep ditch, though a portion of this, at the southern end of the oval, dis- appeared some time ago owing to farm enclosures. Its internal measure- ment from north to south is about 240 feet. There was a small tumulus adjoining on the west side, but it has been removed. 1 Major Rooke gave a plan of Castle Ring in 1782; he says of it: 'It has a deep ditch and double vallum ; the entrance is very visible on the south-east side, where part of the vallum has been levelled by the plough. The diameter from north-east to south-west is 143 feet, from south-east to north-west 165 feet.' But the plan gives the last measurement as 156 feet." 3. Immediately to the east of HATHERSAGE church is a small earthwork known as CAMP GREEN (x. 12). It was originally a circular enclosure having a diameter of about 200 feet, and surrounded by a rampart and ditch. There are still some remains, but it is now traversed by a footpath and much of the site is encumbered with buildings. Bateman described it, in 1848, as ' a high, large, circular mound of earth in- closed by a deep ditch and vallum.' 3 Sir Gardner Wilkinson wrote of it, in 1860:
- Its position and entourage argue in favour
of its being British.' 4 There is, however, a much earlier and more accurate account of this earthwork than those just cited. Mr. Bray, during his tour of 1779, de- scribes this small circular camp as having an outside diameter of 200 feet, whilst the inner area was 144 feet in diameter. A ground plan and a section are given, from which it would appear that the centre was not a mound but a hollow within a rampart some 20 feet high, the whole surrounded by a deep ditch. 8 This earthwork was visited by the British Archaeological Society, in July 1889, when it was described as circular and consisting of a high rampart with a moat outside, but in a fragmentary condition.' 4. On the high ground above the road from Hope to Castleton, on the left hand a little beyond Hope, is the FOLLY (x. 5), a small annular entrenchment about 75 feet in diameter, with a slight elevation in the centre. A celt has been found here. Possibly this circular 1 Briefly described in Bateman's Vestiges. * Archeeok&a, vi. 113, plate 1 6.
- Vestiges, 12$. 4 Reliquary, i. 162-3.
- Bray's Tour In Deri, and Torks (1783), 245, plate v. Perhaps both Bray and Bateman meant the
same thing, the centre being raised as a sort of mound surrounded by a vallum.
- Journ. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N. S. vi. 276.
372 SCALE OF FEET IOO too CAMP GUEN, HATHBRSACE.
