. The Victoria history of the county of Devon;. Natural history. ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Hifl. SCfltEOFFEET »oo ioo joo Camp at Shaugh Prior. A brass celt was found near this spot. RoBOROUGH ( XXX, 15).—Eleven miles south of Barnstaple is the Ten Oaks camp in the midst of a wood, defended by a rampart and ditch, with an outside agger very perfect. It is 300 ft. by 200 ft., and an outer work embraces two-thirds of the camp on the north-west. Seaton and Beer.—On Little Coochill, i mile west of Seaton, is the site of Hanna Ditches, popularly known as Honey Ditches, said to have received its name f
. The Victoria history of the county of Devon;. Natural history. ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Hifl. SCfltEOFFEET »oo ioo joo Camp at Shaugh Prior. A brass celt was found near this spot. RoBOROUGH ( XXX, 15).—Eleven miles south of Barnstaple is the Ten Oaks camp in the midst of a wood, defended by a rampart and ditch, with an outside agger very perfect. It is 300 ft. by 200 ft., and an outer work embraces two-thirds of the camp on the north-west. Seaton and Beer.—On Little Coochill, i mile west of Seaton, is the site of Hanna Ditches, popularly known as Honey Ditches, said to have received its name from Hanna, a Danish chief. This earthwork which was an oval, or nearly circular camp of vallum and fosse, containing about 3 acres, was destroyed in 1862, and the name transferred to the site of a Roman villa with a hypocaust (excavated in 1859), ly'"g 'r* * fi^l"! 2 * ™'l^ distant. Hanna Ditches Camp is noticed by Stukeley, who also mentions a square camp with strong ditches ^ a mile west of Seaton, of which Lysons said there were no traces in his time. Shaugh Prior ( cxviii, 7).—This interesting camp, north of Plympton Earle, is somewhat difficult to find. It is near Wotter, the Lee Moor Clay Works, and Cann Wood; between the River Plym and Lory Brook. Towards the south-west is an extensive view over the valley of the Plym, but to the north and the east the moor is bounded only by the skyline. It is an oblong camp, locally known as the ' Bull Ring,' surrounded by a vallum 20 ft. wide at the base and 8 ft. high, broadens at certain vulnerable points as may best be understood by the plan. The entrance on the south was by a sunk-road 80 ft. wide, but the banks on either side have been largely destroyed, and a road severs it from the camp. At the north- east corner are the remains of a vallum which dies away in an arc ; this was part of an enclosure which may be traced on the north and western sides ; on the latter the court is 25 ft. wide, bordered by the
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