IN HAMPSHIRE HIGHLANDS 3 



Perhaps for the tourist in a hurry and the 

 sightseer it has no very striking feature. It has no 

 Silchester teeming with remains of Roman great- 

 ness ; no private residence of such superb Jacobean 

 beauty as Bramshill House, in the eastern corner 

 of the county ; no great naval centre like Ports- 

 mouth or military centre like Aldershot; nor, 

 finally, is it so well pierced by the iron roads, 

 which bring the tourist and the sightseers, as 

 are other parts of the county. And yet this 

 north-west corner, bordering on Wiltshire on the 

 west and Berkshire on the north, is both an 

 interesting and a beautiful district. There must 

 have been a day when the tide of battle swept 

 over nearly the whole country hereabouts. You 

 need not go to the highest point in the woods 

 to see standing out clear-cut from the surround- 

 ing country the marks of many a fierce struggle. 

 Danebury and Quarley are among the hills with 

 summits now covered only with a few clumps of 

 trees, that had at one time great entrenchments, 

 and were the heights, no doubt, round which the 

 combat often deepened. These entrenchments 

 were probably British, but elsewhere traces of 

 the Roman rule are not wanting. There are 



