A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



from which there is a fine view on nearly every side. The Icknield Street 

 passes northwards from the Roman station at Alcester about a mile away 

 on the east, and the ancient Ridgeway at about the same distance on the 

 west ; to the south runs the valley of the Alne, with the town of Alcester 

 beside the river. 



The remains are now slight and disconnected. But in 1875 they 

 were much more striking, and Mr. Burgess made the plan of them here 



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reproduced for a paper which he contributed to the Archaeological Journal '; 

 he then described these singular earthworks as consisting of a ' long rect- 

 angular mound like a gigantic barrow, encompassed by a double rampart 

 and terminating in the north in two rectangular enclosures.' The ditches 

 between the ramparts were 12 to 15 feet deep. 1 In 1784 a writer in The 



Burgess in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Trans. (187*), p. 87, in Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. 

 (i73), P- 39. and m Jrch. Journ. vol. xxxiii. (1876), p. 373. 



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