Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The English Historical Review, 1915, Vol. 30
LD sarum is perhaps the most famous of the 'villes mortes' of England, and it has good ground for its reputation. Even in Roman times it was an inhabited place, which our antiquaries, ever since Camden, have agreed to identify with the Sorbiodunum or Sorviodunum of the Antonino Itinerary,1 and it was - as indeed it visibly is to this day - a meeting-place of Roman roads. Then comes a blank the site reappears as an English settlement of. Some slight importance towards the year 1000, and for two centuries after the Norman Conquest it could boast of a stately cathedral and a castle built in stone. It has now long lain desolate, but huge mounds and ditches mark its ruin its outer fosse is 100 feet deep and 150 feet wide, and from the high chalk ridge on which it stands its central mound breaks the sky-line of the landscape for miles around.
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