A HISTORY OF STAFFORDSHIRE 



Chartley, Tamworth, and Dudley, and in a modified form at Caverswall, 

 Eccleshall, and Lichfield. 



Of the homestead moats (class F), which are numerous, it has been 

 thought necessary only to give a tabulated list. 



A tabulated list has also been given of the lows and other burial 

 mounds. 



In conclusion the writer has to tender his thanks to all those who 

 have assisted him in his task, more especially to his son, the late Mr. Thomas 

 Rickman Lynam, who worked for months in measuring and levelling, 

 and who stood the trials of three years in the Royal Engineers in the 

 South African war, but succumbed to the dread cold and wet of England's 

 last spring. 



HILL FORTS 



(CLASS B) 

 ALTON : BUNBURY. Of this fort Dr. Stebbing Shaw relates : 



Near Alveton, or Alton, in the north-west borders of this county, upon a lofty 

 situation in the lands of the Earl of Shrewsbury, there still remains near the lodge another 

 fortress like that at Mere, only very much larger, which they call Bunbury. The form of 

 it is irregular, being encompassed with a double, and sometimes treble trench, according to 

 the situation required on the north-west and north-east sides, all the rest being naturally 

 inaccessible, the whole including about an hundred acres . . . This work still remains very 

 visible, and I was informed that an ancient sword was found very lately and sent to Sir 

 Joseph Banks. 



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Alton Towers 



SECTION A.B. 

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BUNBURY HILL, ALTON 



Since the time of Stebbing Shaw the visibility of this fort has almost 

 vanished, for part of it became the site of the far-famed Alton Towers and 

 its sumptuous gardens. Happily a fragment of the hundred acres of the 

 fort still remains ; its point of commencement starting immediately at the 



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