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Dewponds, earthworks and "hut circles" cover the hills in all directions. At Martinsell, the camp-crowned hill to the east of the high road, until recent days a festival was held, the beginnings of which may have been in Neolithic times. On Palm Sunday young men and maidens would ascend the hill carrying boughs of hazel.
Figsbury Rings is the name of the camp-crowned summit to the east of our road. The first three villages are all "Winterbournes " Earls, Dauntsey and Gunner. The first two have rebuilt churches, but the third Gunner has a Transitional building of some interest. The name is a corruption of Gunnora, spouse of one of the Delameres who were lords hereabouts in the early thirteenth century.
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