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and paffing through the Chiltern Woods,came to Oxford and burnt 

 it\ ere&ing perhaps this fortified Barrow in the way, where 'tis 

 like they might meet with fome oppofition, and loofe fome prin- 

 cipal Captain. As alfo upon Shotover-hill, where rhere feems to 

 have been two other little Barrows, on the left hand of the road 

 from Oxford to London ,that fhould I confefs have been mention'd 

 before in . 5 1 . of this Chapter. 



79. But as for the large fquare Entrenchments on Callow-hills 

 in the Parifti of Stunsfield (which yet 'tis poflible too may have 

 been an old Britift town, fuch as defcribed by C<efar, Oppidum vo- 

 cant cumfj/lvas impedita6vallG atquefofia. munierunt\ it being much 

 larger than any of the reft, and having deep holes within, I fup- 

 pofe, to preferve water") the fmall Fortification under Cornbury 

 Park-wall , and the large one called Beaumont , near Mixbury- 

 Church, encompaffed with a ditch 1 70 paces one way, and 128 

 the other ; I can give no account of them, but that in general 'tis 

 like they were works of the Saxons, thefe being aWfqua re, though 

 the laftby its name fhould indeed be Norman. 



8 o . And fo again for the Fortification commonly called Round- 

 caftle, weft of Begbrook Church, but in the Parifh of Bladen, 

 and Lineham Barrow (between which and Pudlycot, a Seat of the 

 ancient Family of the Lacy's, there is a paflage under ground 

 down to the river') I can fay little of them, but that in general 'tis 

 moft probable they were made by the Danes (they being both 

 round) but upon what particular occafion , I could no where 

 find. 



81. Befide the circles of Earth caft up by the Danes, there 

 are others of slone in many places of this Nation, and particular- 

 ly one here in the very bounds of Oxford-fiire, near Chipping-nor- 

 ton, in the Parifh of Little Rollwright, the ftones being placed in 

 manner and form, and now remain as exactly engraven Tab. 16. 

 Fig. 2222, in a round of 'twixt 30 and 40 paces over ; the tai- 

 led: of them all (which may be zfeak for the reft) being about fe- 

 ven foot high. North of thefe, about a Bolts-fhootoff, on the 

 other fide the hedge, in the County of Warwick.-, ftandsonefin- 

 gly alone, upwards of nine foot high, in form as defcribed Fig. 

 1 . and Eaft ward five others, as in Fig. 3 . about two furlongs off, 



* Simeon Dunelmenfistde geftis'Reg. Avg. in Anno ioio. ' Jutii Cafar'u Comment arior.de MoGalli- 

 co, lib. 5. 



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