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On Hollybush Hill, within the walls of the Camp, is a 
barrow of symmetrical form, 150 feet long by 32 feet broad, 
and about three feet high, lying North and South, with a 
slight trench round it. In September, 1879, I was the means 
of having this barrow partially excavated. 
Although on the top of the hill, where usually little soil is 
found, in every part opened it was four feet deep. It could 
not have accumulated upon such a spot, and evidence of this 
was seen by the fact that many pieces of quartzose grit, pro- 
bably from Rowick, and some large angular pieces of Laurentian 
rock were found. Ten feet from the West side, at a depth of 
three feet, fragments of charcoal, two small pieces of burnt 
brick—one having the impression of a dog’s foot—and a thin 
copper ring were discovered embedded in the black earth. 
A few days after the excavation General Pitt-Rivers 
arrived here, who stated he had been present at the opening of 
similar mounds in Oxfordshire and elsewhere without results. 
_ At Dartmoor he had seen raised mounds which had been 
thrown up by rabbits in burrowing. Whatever may have 
been the case at Dartmoor, Mr Piper did not believe that at 
any period of the word’s history men could have been found so 
foolish as to carry to the top of Malvern Hill sufficient soil to 
construct an earthwork 50 yards long, 10 yards wide, and three 
feet deep for the beatification of rabbits. He said Mr John 
KH. Price, F.S.A., remarks that some significance must be 
attached to the relics in the long barrow, and the mound and 
_ its contents may be Roman—an illustration of a Botontinus, or 
one of the terminal marks which it was the practice of the 
surveyors of old to construct at the confines of territories. In 
defining the boundaries of land the Agrimensors, or land 
surveyors, selected various signs, the future discovery of which 
would make the lines of demarcation clearly significant. 
My opinion that the Barrow is Roman or post Roman is 
unchanged, and, as history tells us, a great battle was fought 
on the Malvern Hills in the Tenth Century, when Athelstan 
drove the Cyrmry beyond the Wye, and the battle probably 
took place within these entrenchments. 
