Survey of English Place-Names

Historical Forms

• Skonsbor(r)ow 1601,1601(1638),1638 Terrier

• Sconborowe hill 1628 Ipm

• Stansbury Hill (sic) 1848 TA

Etymology

, Skonsbor (r )ow 1601, 1601 (1638), 1638Terrier , Sconborowe hill 1628Ipm, Stansbury Hill (sic)1848 TA , v. berg ; earlier forms are needed to explain the specific of the name of the hill , the site of a pagan Anglo - Saxon warrior inhumation . The medial s suggests an OE pers. n. in the possessive case , but no likely name is apparent , unless if what we have here is a modified OE  masc. pers.n. Stān ( > Ston - > Skon - ) . Alternatively , the eModEng sconse skance ' a shelter ' ( of uncertain origin but cognate with MHG  schanze , early Du  schantze ' brushwood ' ) , may have had an OE form with the same meaning , but otherwise unrecorded .