^ The Statural H'tjlory 



according to the Itinerary of Antoninus* ; and thence clofe by 

 Elsficld toAlchefier, as defcribed in the Map, and in . 2 7. and 

 28. of this Chapter. 



73. Which is all I find remaining of the Romans here, but 

 fome parcels of their Mony found at many other places, particu- 

 larly near Dorcbefter not far from Dih-hills, near the Fortification 

 at Idbury, and Madmarflon-hill in the Parifti of ' Svalcliff, inclofed 

 with a double vallum ; which I therefore judge to have been Ro- 

 man works. There is alfo a fmail circumvallation in a Wood South 

 and by Weft of Harpfden Church, near which place there has alfo 

 been Roman mony dug up (whereof there is fome in the poffeffion 



of the Worfhipful Hall Efq;) and fo likewife about Hor- 



lej, Swerford, Chippingnorton, Teynton, and a Village called Sinet 

 near Burford, Stratton-Audley, Fringford and TuJ more, and moft 

 of them, of the Emperors between Cocceiws Nerva, and Theodofms 

 thefecond, exclufively. . * 



74. After the departure of the Romans came the Saxons into 

 Britan, and after them the Danes, who alfo made them Works Co 

 indiftinguifhable from the Romans (otherwife than by the Roman 

 mony found near them, as in the former Paragraph) that they can 

 fcarce be known afunder: So that whatever of thefe Fortificati- 

 ons (at moft places in this County abufively called Barrows) have 

 no Roman mony found at or near them, I think we muft conclude 

 either Saxon or Danijh ; Saxon if fquare, and if round Danifi ; 

 for fo 1 find them diftinguifh'd in a MS, Hiftory of Ireland by 

 E. S. whereof the fir ft fort he calls Falkmotes, i. e. places for the 

 meeting of the folk, or people, upon the approach of the enemy 3 

 and the latter Danerathes, i. e. hills of the Danes made for the 

 fame purpofe x , though I very much queftion whether I (hall find 

 thefe forms ftri&ly obferved in all places hereafter. 



75. Yet I find Tadmerton-Caslle, and Hooknorton Barrow not 

 far from it, agreeable to this rule ; the former being large and 

 round, and the other fmaller and rather a quinquangle than a fquare; 

 both of them caftup (the great round one by the Danes, and the 

 lefs fquare one by the Saxons) about the year 914, when the 

 Danes in the time of Edward Senior being grown ftrong and nu- 

 merous, came forth of Northampton and Leicefter, and made great 

 (laughter of the Englijh- Saxons at ^oc^meretune, fays J oh. Brom- 



* See Burtoft's Map of Antoninus his Itinerary. * Hiftory of Ireland, MS ptnes Autborem. 



ton, 



