[Sidenote: +Arbury Hill.+ Ro. _camp_.] When we mount the next hill there is a lovely prospect as far as Watford-gap, four miles off, a great vale or rather level meadow lying between, a-cross which the road is drawn: and hereabouts the ridge of it is very high for miles together: the nature of the way, on both sides being stoney, has spared it. Several _tumuli_ upon the road; bodies found under them: this shows the Romans did not travel upon them on horse-back. Watford-gap is a convenient inn for antiquaries to supply the mansion of _Tripontium_, which I think proper to advertise them of: it has a pleasant prospect of the road northwards: it is a high hill, and a rock of stone six foot under the surface, which is softish; then a bed of clay; under that a blue hard stone of good depth: below this rock it is springy, and at the bottom by the meadows are many quick springs. At Legers Ashby near here has been another old town, as they say, destroyed by the Danes: there are great ditches, causeways, and marks of streets. Catesby owned the town, who hatched the powder-plot. I went out of the road through Norton to see a great camp called Burrow hill, upon the north end of a hill covered over with fern and goss: here is a horse-race kept; and the whole hill-top, which is of great extent, seems to have been fortified: but the principal work upon the end of it is squarish, double ditched, of about twelve acres: the inner ditch is very large, and at one corner has a spring: the _vallum_ is but moderate: a squarish work within, upon the highest part of the camp, like a _prætorium_. They say this was a Danish camp; and every thing hereabouts is attributed to the _Danes_, because of the neighbouring _Daventre_, which they suppose to be built by them: the road hereabouts too being overgrown with _dane-weed_, they fancy it sprung from the blood of the Danes slain in battle, and that, if upon a certain day in the year you cut it, it bleeds. As to the camp, I believe it to be originally Roman; but that it has been occupied by some other people, and perhaps the Danes, who have new modelled it, and made new works to it. Consult Mr. Moreton, who has discoursed very largely about it. Much _cotyledon_ and _ros solis_ grow in the springs hereabouts: the stone is red and sandy, and brim-full of shells. I saw a fine _cornu ammonis_ lie neglected in Norton town road, too big to bring away, and where they have fresh mended the Watling-street with this stone; it was an amusement for some miles to view the shells in it. Hereabouts the road is overgrown with grass and trefoil, being well nigh neglected for badness, and the trade wholly turned another way, by Coventry, for that reason. Between the head of the Leam and this Avon is Arbury hill in view, another Roman camp, upon a very high hill; notoriously made for a guard between the two rivers. [Sidenote: +Benavona.+] [Sidenote: TAB. XXVIII. 2d Vol.] [Sidenote: +Castledikes.+]