More information : [SU 50389842, sited approximately from plan fig. 2]. Traces of a bank and ditch c. 390' long extend along a footpath leading to Radley, on the N. side of a large field opposite the turn to Northcourt, on the upper Oxford Road, near Abingdon. Much slighter traces of a bank extend for the same distance on the east side, but nothing was visible on the other two sides. The site is comparable with the unfinished Park Wood intrenchments at Hampstead Norris [SU 57 NW 14] and it fits the position, described by Leland, of an earthwork called `Serpenhill'. (See illustration card). (1) All traces of this earthwork have been destroyed by a housing estate.
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