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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE from which there is a fine view on nearly every side. The Icknield Street passes northwards from the Roman station at Alcester about a mile away on the east, and the ancient Ridgeway at about the same distance on the west ; to the south runs the valley of the Alne, with the town of Alcester beside the river. The remains are now slight and disconnected. But in 1875 they were much more striking, and Mr. Burgess made the plan of them here Danes' Banks. ^minrimmmiMffig^ If -i3 a!w;rr,;T^r,tfr,;n^Wff.''*-CE:: ="== r 5r~ 1 1^ ^T- *fiS^ i ---B ""Hittiitftttti i mi i Mm* nmn nm ii'tiii"C ^ fc SECTION. o B ENLARGED SECTION AT C COUCHTON A. D. 1875, after Burg ess SCALE OF FEET 190 20O 390 reproduced for a paper which he contributed to the Archaeological Journal '; he then described these singular earthworks as consisting of a ' long rect- angular mound like a gigantic barrow, encompassed by a double rampart and terminating in the north in two rectangular enclosures.' The ditches between the ramparts were 12 to 15 feet deep. 1 In 1784 a writer in The Burgess in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Trans. (187*), p. 87, in Brit. Arch. Assoc. Journ. (i73), P- 39. and m Jrch. Journ. vol. xxxiii. (1876), p. 373. 372