PROCEEDINGS 01- THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 205 



which was published in the 'Gentleman's Magazine.' The 

 present owner of the relies, Mr. C. \V. Laurence, of Sandy- 

 well Park, kindly exhibited them to the members. The 

 site on which they were found was undoubtedly that of a 

 Roman posting station ; and, at the Garrick's Head Inn, 

 the members of the Club saw what an important position 

 it occupied. A road of Roman, and possibly pre-Roman, 

 date runs through Andoversford from the Ermine Street 

 at Birdlip to the Foss Way at Stow. Connected with it 

 were the camp of Crickley Hill, the Greenway Lane past 

 Ullen Wood, Sandy Lane, three camps at Dowdeswell, 

 the WHiite Way from Cirencester past Withington Villa, 

 a trackway over Ham Hill, Nottingham Hill and Cleeve 

 camps, Salperton camp, and the Eubury camp, near Stow. 

 Withington and Eubury are connected with this arterial 

 highway by roads whose remarkable straightness testifies 

 to their Roman construction ; and the little village of 

 Foxcote is in Domesday, and by' every villager called 

 'Foscote,' or the 'wood by the fosse.' Two of the camps 

 at Dowdeswell — one of which was visited — are marked 

 on the ordnance map as Roman. One has ramparts on 

 two sides, and the other on three sides ; so that possibly 

 they may have been haiae, or places into w^hich cattle were 

 driven and kept : this theory receives some support from 

 a neighbouring place-name — Heylens farm. The third 

 camp covers a large area, and was undoubtedly a British 

 village. 



At Whittington the party visited the church and the 

 court. Like most Cotteswold churches the former dates 

 back to Norman times; but it has been much altered. The 

 south aisle was formerly much wider ; and in a recent 

 restoration its eastern arch and west window were exposed. 

 Two knightly effigies are of the de Crupet family, whom 

 the late Mr. John Jones, an erudite member of the Club, 

 identified as the owners of The Crippets : hence the latter 



