COXWELL (LITTLE), a chapelry in that part of
the parish of FARRINGDON which is in the hundred of
FARRINGDON, county of BERKS, l mile (S.) from
Great Farringdon, containing 271 inhabitants. The
chapel is dedicated to St. Mary. The remains of a
camp, apparently in the form of a square, are visible
here, the double ditch on the western side being nearly
entire; and there are also, in an enclosed field of about
fourteen acres, two hundred and seventy-three pits,
called Cole's Pits, excavated in the sand and varying in
depth, supposed to have been the habitations, or'hidingplaces,
of the ancient Britons.