53 (1 The O^dtural Hijlbry 
and pafling through the Chiltern Woods,came to Oxford znd burnt 
it\ erecting perhaps this /or/i/fe^/ S^rrow^ in the way, where 'tis 
like they might meet with fome oppofition, and loofe fome prin- 
cipal Captain, As alfo upon Shotover-hill^ where there feems to 
have been two other little Barrows^ on the left hand of the road 
from Oxford to Z. Wo/2,that lliould I confefs have been mention'd 
before in § . $ i . of this Chapter, 
79. But as for the large fquare Entrenchments on Callow-hills 
in the Parifli of Stunsfield (which yet 'tis poflible too may have 
been an old Britijh town^ fuch as defcribed by Cdefar^ Oppidum va- 
cant cum fylva6 impeditasvallo atquefof^a. munierunt \ it being much 
larger than any of the reft, and having deep boles within, I fup- 
pofe, to preferve water') the fmall Fortification under Cornhury 
Park-wall , and the large one called Beaumont , near Mixbury^ 
Church, encompalTed with a ditch i 70 paces one way, and 128 
the other ; I can give no account of them^ but that in general 'tis 
like they were irorfo of tht Saxons^ thefe being ally^z/^re, though 
the lafthy its name (hould indeed be Norman, 
80. And fo again for the Fortification commonly called Rounds 
cafile^ weft of Begbrook Church , but in the Pari(h of Bladen^ 
and Lineham Barrow (between which and Pudljcot^ a Seat of the 
ancient Family of the Lacy's^ there is a paflage under ground 
down to the river) I can fay little of them, but that in general 'tis 
moft probable they were made by the Danes (they being both 
round) but upon what particular occafion , I could no where 
find. 
81. Befide the circles of Earth caft up by thcDanes^ there 
are others of ftone in many places of this Nation, and particular- 
ly one here in the very bounds of Oxford-Jhire, near Chipping-nor- 
ton^ in the Parifh of Little Rollmight, the ftones being placed in 
manner and form, and now remain as exaftly engraven Tlz^. 16. 
Fig. 2222, in a round of 'twixt 30 and 40 paces over ; the tal- 
left of them all (which may be a fi:ale for the reft) being about fe- 
ven foot high. North of thefe, about a Bolts-fhoot off, on the 
other fide the hedge, in the County Warwick,-, ftands onefin- 
gly alone, upwards of nine foot high, in form as defcribed F/^. 
I . and Eaft ward five others, as in Fig, 3 . about two furlongs off, 
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