ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 







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Stoneton. — Moat Stoneton Manor. 



Thorpe Lubenham. — Thorpe Lubenham Hall Moat. 



TiTCHMARSH. — Titchmarsh Castle (if miles E.N.E. of Thrapston). 

 This is a fair-sized platform surrounded with a ditch 54 feet wide, once con- 

 taining water, but now drained into a large pond on the south-east. The 

 enclosed portion, which has some inequality of surface, is 

 from 2 to 6 feet above the natural level. The position 

 commands the east and north for a mile or two, being 

 some 80 feet above a stream which flows north a quarter 

 of a mile to the east, and 200 feet above sea level. The 

 ground outside the ditch on the south-west is very uneven, 

 as if there were once further entrenchments on that side ; 

 also on the north-west is an indefinite heap. The subsoil 

 is stone. The village is on the north, and the church 

 a quarter of a mile north-west. 



Walgrave. — Moat to north of Walgrave. 



Warmington. — Moat. Papley. 



Weekley. — Site of old Weekley Manor. 



Whiston. — Place House Moat. 



WicKEN. — Moat to south-east of Rabbit Wood. 



WiNwicK. — Moat. 



Yardley Gobion. — Yardley Gobion Manor Farm, 4J miles south-east of 

 Towcester, has slight entrenchments. 



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Titchmarsh Castle, 



ENCLOSURES RAMPARTED AND FOSSED 



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Barnwell Castle (i| miles S.S.E. of Oundle). — Here are two ancient 

 works beside a modern mansion ; first a square stone castle standing on the 

 ground some 20 feet above the Barnwell Brook, 

 with no true entrenchments except on the east 

 side where there is a raised bank 6 feet high, 

 but probably not of early date. Second, a 

 curious earthwork near the brook, apparently 

 the site of an earlier castle, of much the same 

 type as the castles or manors of Braybrooke, ^I't^^y 

 Hinton, and Steane, all in this county, except '%^^i^fl-i'l<''^§ii 





Barnwell Castle. 



that here the rampart was for defence rather 

 than a bank to create a water level. The 

 entrenchments form two enclosures, the smaller 

 being lower than the larger, with an oblong 

 hollow in the middle as at Braybrooke and 

 Barton Seagrave, and consist of two ditches 

 and one rampart, the water of the brook being caused to wash round the 

 inner ditch and perhaps also at one time round the outer ditch, but the 

 outer ditch is not now continuous. The position is not well chosen as a 

 defensive work, if such it was, since it has no command of the neighbour- 

 hood, the land on each side, east and west, rising immediately. The 

 earthwork is planted as a spinny. 



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