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 A HISTORY OF WORCESTERSHIRE (2) On this height, known as Woodbury Hill (fig. 2), is an exten- sive camp of an irregular oval shape v^ith a single rampart enclosing a space of some 30 acres. No relics of any kind are recorded as having been found here. To w^hat period the original camp belonged is most difficult to say, for this hill has been occupied so often, and its position rendered its occupation so necessary whenever any military movements were going on in the district, that probably it has been a camp in every contest in the Severn valley. It was according to local tradition occupied by Owen Glendower in 1405, and by the duke of Buckingham in his ill-starred expedition of 1483 ; but it is obviously of a far remoter antiquity, and in all probability the original camp was made by one of J n yj^ci^e GJncAcs ^ cl ^yhzti^te. Mi^4 — — L Fig. a. the occupying races in the Severn valley who were being pressed west- ward by some one of the different bands of invaders. (3) Following the range of hills to the west, traces of earthworks are to be found on an isolated hill above Martley known as the Berrow. Its western base adjoins the river Teme, and on its eastern side it is crossed by the road into Herefordshire from Worcester. This post would guard the passage of the river and the way from Worcestershire to Hereford- shire. The traces of earthworks are plain, but it is not easy to deter- mine what they were ; so far no relics of any kind are recorded as having been found on or near it. A little beyond the Berrow to the west, the Teme passes through this range of hills. On most of the hilltops traces of what are probably 186