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Some Recent Air Discoveries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

O. G. S. Crawford
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Two hundred and ten years ago ‘ old Stukeley ’, the Archdruid, (then 36 years of age) made a famous discovery on a heath near London—nothing less than one of Julius Caesar’s camps. At least Stukeley liked to think it such, and to embroider his treasure with many fanciful imaginings. ‘Here he received the ambassadors of the Trinobantes, desiring their prince Mandubrace to be restored. . . . Another day came in ambassadors from the Cenimani, Segontiaci, Ancalites, Bibroci and Cassi’. True to his laudable custom, he made a rough plan of the ’camp‘, which shows that it was, according to his own measurements, 100 by 80 paces, and contained within it another similar enclosure. There was also an irregular eastern annex, 100 paces by 130, designed for the accommodation of the second lot of ambassadors !

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Research Article
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Antiquity , Volume 7 , Issue 27 , September 1933 , pp. 290 - 296
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1933

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References

1 See my Long Barrows of the Cotswolds (Bellows, 1925) p. 212.Google Scholar

2 Major Allen reports that this circle is only partly visible this year.

3 Major Allen has taken a special photo of this, but we have not reproduced it here.

4 Proc. Soc. Ant., London, 2nd series, 28, 10 ff.Google Scholar

5 See ANTIQUITY, 1930, 4, 303 ff.Google Scholar

6 Perambulation of Wychewod’ Forest, published in The Eynsham Cartulary, ed. Salter, W.H., Oxford Hist. Soc. 1908, 51, 92–4.Google Scholar