and on the Battles of Cynuit and Ethandun. 79 
on the borders of Gloucestershire, and within about half a mile of 
the Roman road, the Fosse. “It has,” says Aubrey, ‘“ double- 
works [and is] therefore not Roman.” It contains about twenty- 
five acres, and is situate on a promontory of Colerne Down, from 
which it is separated by a double, deep rectilinear rampart, having 
a single entrance in the centre facing the south-west. The other 
sides, says the same writer, are well secured by the precipice, at 
the bottom of which runs a stream. Within the arca is a small 
subsidiary earthwork, about an acre in extent, and with an opening 
facing the west.!. The name of Doncombe Bottom, which attaches 
to the ravine below the camp, may possibly refer to the Danes. 
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Admitting the head quarters of the Danes to have been at Chippen- 
ham, there seems no improbability in the supposition that they had 
a place of greater strength in the neighbourhood which they in 
part occupied, and to which they might in case of need retire. 
! See a good plan in Hoare’s ‘Ancient Wilts,” vol. II, p. 103, from which 
our wood engraving has been reduced. See also ‘‘Roman Era,” p. 103. For 
this engraving, and for that of Bratton Camp, also reduced from a plate in 
“Ancient Wilts,” vol. I., p. 55, the Committee of the Society are indebted to 
one of the members, the Rey. lB. Meyrick. 
