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DONNINGTON CASTLE, DoN- 

 NINGTON. 



DONNINGTON.- 



says : ' There yet appear two camps by Abingdon, one called Serpen hill, 

 a quarter of a mile east-north-east out of the town. Here it is said was 



a battle between the Danes and Saxons ; part of 

 the trenches remains : the other is called Barrow, 

 a little west from the town.' 1 



CHILDREY. There are faint traces of earth- 

 works on Hackpen Hill 

 on the down above Chil- 

 drey. They were first 

 noted by the Rev. Francis 

 Wise in 1738, who con- 

 sidered them to date from 

 post-Roman times.' 



HINTON WALDRIST. 

 There are slight traces 

 of entrenchments in the 

 village of Hinton Wald- 



HINTON WALDRIST. "St, to the WCSt of the 



by-road leading through the village. 

 -There are remains of earthworks of very irregular 

 form around Donnington Castle, which seem to be fragments of the 



ramparts thrown up temporarily 

 during the civil war, and which 

 are figured in Grose's Antiq. Eng- 

 land and Wales, vol. i. These 

 earthworks so cover the whole 

 site that it is impossible to deter- 

 mine whether an earlier camp 

 stood here before the castle was 

 erected. 3 



UFFINGTON, HARDWELL 

 CAMP. This is usually enumer- 

 ated among the hill camps, but 

 as it lies at the bottom of a steep 

 slope, and its construction differs 

 considerably from the others of 

 the hill-top type, it has here been 

 differently classed. 



As the camp has been planted 

 thickly with spruce trees, it is 

 not easy to obtain a clear view of 

 its defences, and as, moreover, 

 there are deep natural gullies on 



HARDWELL CAMP, UFFINCTON. the site, which have been USed tO 



Leland, vii. 65. Cough's Camden, i. 224. 



Wise, Antiq. of Berks. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 191. 

 a Berks, Bucks and Oxon Arch. Journ. iv. 51. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 24. 



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