A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE 



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of burnt corn, while a number of 

 Roman coins have been dug up, 

 and as many as 500 found in an 

 earthenware jar. Some British 

 pottery was also found, and a quan- 

 tity of oyster shells. 



Black coal, like blacksmiths' 

 clinkers, has been dug up round 

 $S?^A*; the entrenchments, and badgers 

 have scratched out fragments of 

 bricks and tiles, while some old 

 copper coins were found on the 



BADBURY HILL CAMP, GREAT COXWELL. north side of the ditch.' 



GREAT COXWELL, BAD- 

 BURY HILL CAMP. This 

 camp is in shape an irregular 

 circle and lies on the top of 

 Badbury Hill, overlooking 

 the Vale of White Horse to 

 the south, and a long stretch 

 of low-lying ground to the 

 Thames Valley on the north- 

 west. 



The fortifications con- 

 sisted originally of two valla 

 with a fosse between them, 

 but early in the nineteenth 

 century the banks were 

 levelled, so that now little 

 remains but vestiges of the 

 fosse on the south, and a 

 faint escarpment on the other 

 sides. Leland notices it as 

 ' a great diche, wher a for- 

 tresse or rather a campe of 

 warre hath been, as some 

 say, diked by the Danes as 

 a sure camp.' * Aubrey calls 

 it Binbury* while Gough, 

 who cites the two last autho- 

 rities, mentions that human 

 bones and ' coals ' have been 



found in the north rampart/ CESAR'S CAMP, EASTHAMPSTEAD. 



Hist, of Newbury and its Environs (1839), 223-4. Hewitt, Hist, of Comfton, 70, 71. Trans. New- 

 bury Dist. Field Club, i. 128, 9; iii. 251-4. The local tradition is that here stood a castle which was 

 blown down one night. Leland, It. ii. 21. Man. Brit. 



Cough's Camden, i. 222. See also Lysons' Mag. Brit. i. 214. 



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