A.G. Bradley, in his book Round About Wiltshire, first published in 1907, noted:
“It was a wonderfully clear morning in early autumn when I mounted the heights of Bratton camp. A crop of swedes filled the twenty acres enclosed by the ramparts, so the coarse unpastured grasses waved rankly over bank and ditch.”
From The Wiltshire Times, Saturday 13th July 1861:
The Crops.
The grass crops in this neighbourhood have turned out excellent, the swathe proving abundant and most of it has been stacked. The grain crops, too, look exceedingly well, especially the wheat, which exhibits not the slightest sign of anything tending to impair its quality, and only very slightly has it been affected by the recent winds. Potatoes, as yet, exhibit a healthy appearance, with no sign of the contagion which destroyed a great portion of them last year.
