Saxon "offa" means "open", while "uffern" is oven, inferno,
volcano. (The village is referred to in the Domesday Book as
Uffintone. [A. D. Mills, "A Dictionary of English Place-Names,"
Oxford University Press, 1991]). Dragon Hill and the horned
beast seem to be linked with such expressions. The WH Hill
itself is shaped like a vent with the animals seeming to leap
upwards on the summit. Is it possible that the Otherworld lay at
the foot of the hill and there were funerals held in the top
enclosure? There are no objects found there to indicate a
military use of the site, but it lies on the border of 2 Celtic
lands, perhaps suggesting the remote location of the Otherworld
and passage there at death. Maybe the chalk beast is the
daughter of the volcano-living Echidna dragon, the goat-horned
lion known as Beaufort Yale, who was the Chimera connected with
a volcanic vent south of Celtic Galatia in Asia Minor...that's a
long story....