Note 238 — Chapter II · CHURCHES ON PAGAN SITES (continued)
Reading edition
T. W. Shore, Archaeol. Remains of Streatham, Balham and Tooting, 1903, p. 20. In connection with entrenched woodlands, notice Caesar, De Bell. Gall., V.C. 21, ‘Oppidum autem Britanni vocant, cum silvas impeditas vallo atque fossa munierunt’ (when the Britons have fortified a tangled woodland with rampart and ditch, they call it a town).