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and bushes, so that the beauty of the castle is lost, and it is not easily found 

 unless approached from the south by a green-sward glade ; a summer- 

 house stands on the mound. The mound is small compared with such castle 

 mounds as Pleshey and Ongar, in Essex, and Brinklow, in Warwickshire, but is 

 of about the same size and height as those of Earls Barton and Wollaston, in this 

 county. Unlike the last two, however, the ditch runs completely round the 

 mound. The bailey or court on the south-south-west is of the ordinary 

 rough horse-shoe form, and was probably once defended by a complete ditch 

 and rampart on three sides (the mound and court being separated by a ditch 

 only), but the rampart and ditch are not now traceable on the north-west 

 side, and the ditch is reduced to a level on part of the east side. There is no 

 true entrance, but the approach was probably from the south, the ditches being 

 crossed by bridges. No stonework exists now, and possibly never was used, 

 but it is likely that a timber stockade added to the defences. Three-eighths of 

 a mile south, a small mound is shown on the Ordnance Survey maps, and 

 named ' Moot Hill' and 'Tumulus'; the writer, however, could find no traces 

 of such a mound. The property belongs to the Papillon Hall estate. 



HOMESTEAD MOATS 



[Class F] 



Armston. — Moat near site of St. Mary Magdalen's Chapel, also a moat 

 north-west of Armston, 



AsHTON. — Moat, Ashton Manor House. 



Barby. — Moat, Barby Manor House. 



Barnwell All Saints. — Moat. 



Beanfield Lawns. — Moat. 



Benefield. — Benefield Castle and Moat. 



Canons Ashby. — The site of an old monastery, 7 miles west-by-north of 

 Towcester, has some moats and fish-ponds. Here is also a slight mound, 

 according to the Ordnance Survey. 



Chipping Warden. — Moat to east of Arbury Banks. 



Clapton. — Moat. Ringdale's Wood to south of Clapton. 



Etton. — Woodcroft Castle Moat, near Maxham's Green Road. 



Great Harrowden. — Moat to north-west of Red Hill and west of Red 

 Hill and West Red Hill spinnies near road from Kettering to Wellingborough. 



Hemington. — Hemington Manor and a moat to the west of Hemington. 



Higham Ferrers. — Laffton Moat. Moat Castle. 



HiGHAM Park. — Moat. 



Hinton in the Hedges. — Moat (not Hinton Manor). 



HoLDENBY. — Remains of moat and site of manor-house and old fish- 

 ponds. Holdenby House. 



LuTTON. — Lutton Manor Moat. 



Peterborough (St. John Baptist). — Low Farm Fengate to west of Car 

 Dyke. Oxney House Moat by site of St. Mary's Chapel. 



PiLTON. — Moat north-west of Bearshank Woods. 



PoLEBRooK. — Moat north-cast of Kingsthorpe Coppice. 



QuiNTON. — Quinton Moat. 



Slipton. — Moat between- Long Lown Wood and Eken's Copse. 



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