they write things differently there
Salmonsbury Camp – recorded as `Sulmonnes Burg’ (Suhl monnes-burg = Ploughman’s burg) in a charter of Offa of Mercia dated AD 779.
The courts of the Liberty or Hundred of Salmonsbury traditionally assembled at the northern entrance to the enclosure throughout the medieval period.
“It is so called from Burg or Burrough, and in ancient Grants it has been writ Burgtone, and may be presumed to have been anciently a large Burrough, because the Ruins of many Houses, after great Ruins, are often discovered. It joins also to the great Roman Foss Way, and the Marks of a Camp, of a large Extent, are yet to be seen”
The Ancient and Present State of Glostershire – Sir Robert Atkyns – 1712
“This village is situated about a quarter of a mile south-east from the Roman Foss, in a fertile vale, surrounded by hills at a pleasing distance, and is watered by a river which rises a little above it, and, as it enters the village, forms itself into an elegant serpentine canal about thirty feet wide, flowing, with an agreeable rapidity, about the depth of fourteen or fifteen inches….. Nature has been lavish with her favours to this place, and with a little more of the assistance of her younger sister, Art, it might vie in beauty and elegance with any Dutch village…… Adjoining to the village, and within the parish, is a large quadrangular Roman camp, inclosing about sixty acres, now divided into twenty fields. The vestiges of it are most perfect to the north- east, where, at a gap in the rampart, a court-leet is held twice a year, for the liberty of Salmonsbury, the ancient name of a hundred now included in that of Slaughter. After calling over the jury, they adjourn to come other place to finish the business. There can be no doubt of the camp being Roman, as many of the coins of that nation have been, and still are, frequently found about it; and a gold signet was lately found, weighing near an ounce….. Round part of the camp, a paved aqueduct was discovered not long since, by people who were sinking a well; and human bones have been often taken up in digging the foundations for walls.”
Samuel Rudder ‘History of Gloucestershire’ 1779
