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 A HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE ISO 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. 272