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The ancient camps -- Their kinds -- 1. Rectangular, Roman -- 2. The / Saxon burh -- 3. The Celtic circular or oval camp -- The _lis_ and / the _dun_ -- 4. Stone fortresses -- Heroic legends in Ireland -- The / Firbolgs -- 5. The stone castle with mortar, Norman -- No good / examples.
Anyone with a very little experience can at once "spot" a camp or castle by the appearance from a distance of a hill or headland; and the traveller in Devon and Cornwall will pass scores of them, as he will see by his Ordnance Survey Map, without giving much attention to them, without supposing that they can be of great interest, unless his attention has been previously directed to the subject. It is a pity that anyone should go through a country which may really be said to make ancient camps and castles its speciality and not know something about them.