 Owing to similarities with the name "Crookbarrow" the site was described by some antiquarians as the burial site of the 1st century AD British chieftain Caratacus, though he was probably buried in Rome where he died in captivity.One antiquarian, John Price, stated in 1799 that the site had been fortified by the Romans and subsequently saw use as a burial site.It is believed that an Anglo-Saxon enclosure, presumably that of White, was established by the 7th century AD.