and on the Battles of Cynuit and Ethandun. 85 
Since the above was written, we have seen a paper, by Mr. R. 8. 
Vidal,! who early in the present century examined, what appear to 
have been the sites indicated by Risdon two centuries before, 
though without acknowledging the source from whence he doubtless 
obtained this information. The site of Hennaborough, this writer 
says, is about a mile to the north west of Bideford, and consequently 
little more than two miles to the south of Appledore, and on the 
west bank of the Torridge. Here, he tells us, is a small hill rising 
with an abrupt acclivity on all sides except the east, where it is 
connected, by a sort of isthmus, with some neighbouring high 
ground. The hill, now covered with trees, is said to have traces of 
an earthwork on the north and west sides. Old people said that the 
name was formerly Henniborough or Henni castle ; that of a house 
close by, more recently called Hengist farm, seems only to be a 
fanciful corruption of the same designation. At the foot of the hill, 
are two streamlets which unite on the south-west side, but which 
it is conjectured may have had a different course and outlet; or may 
have formed a mere swamp, a thousand years ago, in the age of 
Alfred. On the high ground to the east of Henniborough, is a 
place called Silford Moor, where, Mr. Vidal says, are traces of an 
earthwork, apparently unfinished; which he thinks may have 
been an entrenchment formed by the Danes, when they besieged 
the Saxons at this spot. As regards Whibblestone, he was, after 
much enquiry, brought to a place “on the beach, a small way above 
the town,” where was, “a rough slab of rock, about four feet in 
length, by three wide, lying on the open shore, but sunk nearly on 
a level with the surface.” About two-thirds of the distance 
between Henniborough and Whibbleston, is a spot still called 
“ Bloody corner,’ where Mr. Vidal thinks the final and decisive 
struggle took place, and where, we may add, Hubba possibly was 
slain. 
More than enough has perhaps been said, to shew that the 
Lanhill tumulus, was not the grave of Hubba; and, it may be 
added, that it is not probable there ever was any real local tradition 
1“ Aychwologia,” vol. XV, p. 198. 
