Extracts from a Common-place Book of Dr. Stuheley. 343 



Park, a Danish Camp, the inner ditch without a rampire, 11 or 12 

 yards over. The diam. of outmost circle 330 paces. 



" Quarley hill South hath fourfold fortiBcations, in the middle a 

 hollow, perhaps a well. Its as bigg as Yarnbury. 



" The Walls, Vespasian's Carap, as believ'd. The people of 

 Amesbury say the area of it is 40 acres, single trench, one graff 

 towards Stonehenge. 



" In the parish of Codford in the Fields, is a great round camp. 



" In Okely wood, Tisbury parish, near Swallowcliff common, a 

 very strong fortification. [Margin, " British Town."] 



" Babury Castle on Hackpen hill, double works very great, 

 squarish. 



" Chiselbury, a Danish Camp, on the brow of a hill, (on) the road 

 from Salisbury to Shaftsbury. 



"On Templedown, two miles from Marlborough, a Roman Camp, 

 opposite to Barbury Castle. 



" Wanborough, or rather Badbury Camp, near this much Roman 

 Coyn lately found — Bimbury, a Camp opposite to Wanborough. 



" On Sidbury hill, near Everly, a great Brittish Camp, Two 

 trenches run northward to Everly, perhaps to fetch water. 



" Old Sarum. The rampart extraordinary high, higher than at 

 Winchester; within the ring, full of pits where houses stood. 

 Part of the old keep remains still. They dig for flints and hard 

 mortar here. Huge pieces of several ton are fallen down. From 

 Stratford subcastle, Portlane leads to the Castle. Near Portlane 

 in the plow'd fields, the burrough lands on which they chuse 

 Burgesses. 



" On Salisbury Plain near Stonehenge. — In the sheep penning 

 there several barrows called the King's Graves, the stones which 

 once stood there are lately carryed away. 



" At Hakpin hill in a barrow, urnes and a man's thigh-bone found. 

 At Draycote Cern, 1680, an urn with ashes. 



" In the Lieger book of Wilton mention of Herepath, i.e. Military 

 Road. 



" About Salisbury and Andover the Roman road is gravell'd, 

 whereas no gravel is found towards Stratton in Hampshire. 



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