298 List of Prehistoric, Roman, and Pagan Saxon Antiquities. 



Cotley Hill. Circular vallum diam. 160 yds. with ditch inside bank. 



S.W. side tolerably perfect in Hoare's days, remainder defaced by 



ploughing. A barrow in centre (11). A. W. I. 71. 

 Old ditch running N.W.— S.E. from Bishopstrow Down crosses parish 



N. of Middleton and Norton Downs, roughly S. of and parallel with 



Warminster — Salisbury Road and near N. boundary of parish. O.M. 



52 N W. ; A. W. I. Station II. 

 Finds, Neolithic. 2 ground celts, one of flint, and one of black stone, 



found in Scratchbury Camp. A. W. I. 70 ; Stourhead Cat. 11, 19. 

 Roman. Cotley Hill, S.E. of Scratchbury. Pottery, Samian, &c, iron 



nails, flue tiles, &c, in mound and depressions on the down. A. W. 



1.71. 

 Scratchbury Camp. Bronze spoon, 1804. J. Benett Stanford. 

 Scratchbury Camp. Coins. W.A.M. xxxiv. 272. 

 In field called " Blacklands " many Roman remains, no details. A. W. 



1.96. 

 Roman urn, 1856. W.A.M. III. 267. 



NUNTON AND BODENHAM. 



Earthworks. Clearbury Ring. Part of the camp is in this parish but 

 the larger part in Standlynch and Charlton q.v. O.M. 71 SE. 

 Grimsditch running west out of Standlynch crosses the southern part 

 of Nunton and Bodenham, and so west into Odstock, &c. O.M. 71 

 SE. ; A. W. I. 232, Station VII. : Ancient Earthworks of Cranborne 

 Chase. Plan. 



OAKSEY. 



Earthworks. Norwood Castle, a small mount and bailey earthwork of 

 Norman period in field adjoining Dean Farm. O.M. 4 SW. 



OAKE. 



Finds, Late Celtic. At Withy Copse, on N. side of Martinsell Camp, 

 just within parish boundary, a midden 63ft. X 43ft., of from 50 B.C. 

 to 50 A.D., opened 1907, 1908, by Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cunnington. 

 Quantities of animals' bones and pottery, including imported Arretine 

 and Gaulish wares, but no Samian. Bronze brooches, bone weaving 

 comb, iron sickle-shaped keys, arrowhead, nails, &c. Devizes Museum 

 Cat. II. 848—878 ; W.A.M. xxxvi. 125 figs. 



ODSTOCK. 

 Barrows. 



[la— lo.] A. W. I. Station VII. shows two groups of barrows, 4 and 

 5, just N. of Grimsditch, S. of Homington, apparently in Odstock, 

 as well as a group of 6 small barrows close together just S. of the 

 ditch. None of these are shown on O.M. 71 SW. & SE. 



