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in this vicinity, also passing the distinctive Picked Hill and Woodborough Hill with its strip
lynchets, relics of Celtic and medieval cultivation. Cylindrical anti-tank blocks on the end of
a bridge near Woodborough are of a kind seen at several canal crossing points.
Dundas Aqueduct with its cycle track
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Alton Priors, at the site of a Stone Age camp, has a Perpendicular church with a large 1590
box tomb, on which is an interesting Dutch brass plate. Neighbouring Alton Barnes, mostly
owned by Oxford's New College, has an 18th century rectory and a heavily restored Anglo-
Saxon church with everything in miniature.
Because of the lack of subsequent building, many more ancient sites have survived on the
Downs than in most other parts of the country. Knap Hill has a 1.6ha neolithic earthwork
enclosure intersected by many causeways. A 2,000m
2
rectangular earthwork on the east side
was a protected Iron Age homestead. There are also neolithic tombs and Adam's Grave, a
prehistoric barrow.
