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The pool was presumably the meeting-place of the hundred, though it had ceased to be so long before the end of the hundredal system, according to
Dudeney (1849), who knew the Downs intimately. He said it was near the mutual boundary of Rottingdean, Balsdean and Ovingdean, and its faint trace was
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