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defences on tbis side, with the exception of a mass of 

 masonry, evidently of ancient date, at the south western 

 comer, and another small Fragment at the north side of 

 the western gate, through which the road now leading to 

 Wilton runs, are totally destroyed and their Situation 

 marked only by the remains of the internal agger, which 

 was probably crowned as at Castle Rising, Cardiff, and 

 elsewhere, by a battlemented and looped wall of moderate 

 elevation. At the bottom of the slope between the Win- 

 chester Ai-ms Inn and Stevens's garden, the labourers 

 employed a few years ago in constnicting a deep drain, 

 dug up part of several large beams ; these were probably 

 the remains of a wooden barbican situated as usual outside 

 the moat, defending the approach to the western gate, and 

 itself commanded by the interior defences of the gate, 

 which probably consisted of a gate house with flanking 

 towers, all vestiges of which have, however, totally disap- 

 peared. From the soutli-west angle, the moat extended 

 towards the east nearly at right angles, to the course of 

 the brook, between the school-house and the yard of the 

 Old Angel Inn, as far as the present Market, where it 

 turned to the north and proceeded in nearly a straight 

 line under the stables of Pattison's Hotel, and at the back 

 of the houses on the western side of North Street, and 

 joined the river, or rather mill stream, a little above the 

 town mills. Of the defences of this side of the Castle 

 nothing remains untU we come to the eastern gate, where, 

 thougli sadly disfigured by modern additions, stand the 

 very striking remains of a very strong and handsome gate- 

 house, the erection of which has usually been ascribed to 

 Bishop Langton, bis arms being carved on a stone inserted 

 in the western front of the building, but which 1 have no 

 hesitation in referring to the Edwardian period. Not only 



