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 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. N SCALC OF FtET o 100 20O 3OO Alton Towers SECTION A.B. SCALE 4-0 ' I? B 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 334