CADBURY (SOUTH), a parish in the hundred of CATSASH, county of SOMERSET, 4 miles (S.) from Castle- Cary, containing 257 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry of Wells, and diocese of Bath' and Wells, rated in the king's books at £ 10. 3. l., and in the patronage of Francis Newman, Esq. The church is dedicated to St. Thomas a Becket. Near the village are the remains of one of the most famous ancient fortifications in England: it was situated on the northern ex: tremity of a ridge of hills, and encircled by four trenches; its figure inclined to a square, but conforming to the slope of the hill: the area is upwards of thirty acres. A higher work within, surrounded by a trench, is called King Arthur's palace; the rampart is composed of large stones covered with earth, with only one entrance, from the east, guarded by six or seven trenches. Numerous Roman coins, in gold, silver, and copper, have been discovered, chiefly those of Antoninus and Faustina; and, among other antiquities, a silver horse-shoe was dug up about the middle of the sixteenth century. Antiquaries are divided as to the origin of this place: the most probable conjecture seems to be that of Stukeley, who ascribes it to the Romans.