On a genial day it would have been very pleasant on that lofty plain, for the flat top of the vast down is like a plain in appearance, and the earthworks on it show that it was once a populous habitation of man.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
If some of the ancient Britons had come out of their graves to look on, seated on their earthworks, they would have probably rubbed their ghostly hands together and remarked to each other that it reminded them of old times.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
This was accordingly done, the gibbet being erected at the highest point crossed by the line, on a stretch of beautiful smooth elastic turf, among prehistoric earthworks-a spot commanding one of the finest and most extensive views in Southern England.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson