ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



At Denne Hill Park, in Womenswold parish, were traces of 

 extensive earthworks, and from Hasted's words it appears that he 

 regarded ' Denhill ' as Cassar's main camp, and from the great number 

 of (now invisible) entrenchments he mentions in the neighbourhood as 

 being related to the main work, it is evident that the recent destruction 

 of such relics must have been enormous.' 



On the western side of the river, opposite Barham Downs, are 

 faint traces of long lines of works which Mr. Vine considered may- 

 have been constructed by the Britons, but they appear to us more to 

 resemble the sites of old hedgerows than military entrenchments. 



About a mile and a half north-east of the Downs, just above the 

 marshland of the Lesser Stour, is the hill known as Garrington (Domes- 

 day, JVariviniofi), upon which are scarped and terraced lines, maybe the 

 remains of the defences of a British oppidum. 



Barham Downs are recorded as the place of encampments of 

 armies and troops at various times from the thirteenth to the eighteenth 

 centuries, and possibly these temporary tenants may have created some 

 and modified others of the works of which scraps exist. 



Our great regret is that, so fragmentary and doubtful are the 

 remains, we may not devote space to plans and descriptions of them. 



TABLE OF REFERENCES 



With Situation of Sites of Earthworks 



Allington (by Maidstone) .... E Deal X 



Appledore (6 m. S.E. Tenterden) . . X Dover E 



Ash (2 J m.W. Sandwich) . . . . FC Eastry (yi m. N.W. Dover). . . . H 



Aylesford (3 J m. N.W.Maidstone) . H East Wickham (3J m. N.W. Crayford). F 



Benenden (3J m. S.E. Cranbrook) . . F Edenbridge (6 m. S. Westerham) . . F (2) 



Bigbury, see Harbledown Eltham f (2) 



Bilsington (6^ m. S.E. Ashford) . . F (2) Erith X 



Blackheath X EweU (3 m. N.W. Dover) . . . . H 



Boughton Aluph {\\ m. N.E. Ashford) F Eynesford (7 m. S. Dartford) . . . G 



Boughton Malherbe (2 m. S.W. Len- Folkestone E F 



ham) G Frittenden (2 m. S. Staplehurst) . . D 



Brenchley (9 m. S.W. Maidstone) . . D F Goodnestone (2J m. S.E. Wingham) . F 



Bromley F (2) Goudhurst X 



Canterbury C E Great Chart (2 m. S.W. Ashford) . . F (2) 



Capel (5 m. S.E. Tonbridge) . . . F (2) Greenwich Park C 



Charlton (near Woolwich) .... B Groombridge Place, see Speldhurst 



Chart, see Great Chart Harbledown (near Canterbury) . . B 



Chevening (4 m. N.W. Sevenoaks) . F Harty (on Sheppey Isle) .... F 



Chilham (6J m. S.W. Canterbury) . E Hawkhurst (5 m. S.W. Cranbrook). . F 



Chislehurst F Heme (2 m. S. Heme Bay) .... F 



Cobham B (2) Hever (3 m. S.E. Edenbridge). . . G 



Coldred (5 m. N.W. Dover) ... B Horsemonden (2 m. N.W. Goudhurst) F 



Cooling (5 m. N. Rochester) . . . G Hunton (4 m. S.W. Maidstone) . . H 



Cowden (5 m. S. Edenbridge) ... F Iffin Wood, see Nackington 



Cranbrook F (2) Ightham BEG 



Crayford (by Dartford) CF Iwade (3 m. N. Sittingbourne) . . . F 



Darenth (near Dartford) .... B Joyden's Wood, see Dartford 



Dartford C Judd's HiU, see Ospringe 



1 Hiit. Kent (1790), ill. 752-3. 



