Rams Hill
Early-attested site in the Parish of Uffington
Historical Forms
- hremnes byrig 953 BCS899 c.1240 963 c.1240 ib
Etymology
Rams Hill. The bounds of Uffington m. 10th (c. 1200) BCS 687 run in to hremmesbyrige norðgeate - ut æt þam suðgeate . The same landmark is hremnes byrig 953 (c. 1240) BCS 899, 963 (c. 1240) ib 1121.Rams represents the hremnes of the charter-name, which is identical with Ramsbury W 287–8, the lost Ramsbury in Ashbury 347 and Ramsbury Corner in Bucklebury, Pt 1 155. For the two camps on Rams Hill, the ramparts of which are still faintly visible on the ground, v. The Antiquaries Journal 1940, 465–80. The charter-bounds imply that the outer camp had opposed entrances, but S. and C. M. Piggott in the excavation report say that no definite trace of these entrances was observed on the surface or on the air-photograph.
Places in the same Parish
Early-attested site
Other OS name
- Britchcombe Fm
- Grounds Fm
- Long Plantation
- Shepherd's Steps
- Broad Way
- Craven Arms P.H.
- Garrard's Fm
- Little Lane
- Oldland Copse
- Sower Hill Fm
- Stockholm Fm
- Uffington Arch, Uffington Bridge and Uffington Wharf
- Uffington Down and Uffington Gorse
- Uffington Mill
- Uffington Wood
- White Horse P.H.
- Common Fm
- Hare Warren
- Manor Fm and Manor Ho
- Shotover Cottage
- Alfred's Hill
- Coombes Barn, The Coombes
- Kingston Warren Down
- Moor Mill