ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



according to the Ordnance Survey, and the local story has 

 it that this was a defenced position occupied by Charles I 

 against the Parliamentarians. The name of Hall Close 

 hardly supports this theory ; at the same time the form, 

 namely, one line of defence with a curve (for which curve 

 there appears to have been no special reason from the 

 nature of the ground), connects the entrenchments with 

 such works as the one close to and south of the Union 

 Poor House near Chelmsford, in Essex ; Fairfax's Entrench- 

 ment at Bingley, in Yorkshire ; and a defence in Sutton 

 Scarsdale Park, ij miles south-west of Bolsover Castle, in 

 Derbyshire — all of which may have been thrown up in 

 the Civil War. 



Fawslev : Temple Hill. — Fawsley Park, 3 miles 

 south-west of Daventry, has a small oblong enclosure. Hall Close, East 



Green's Norton. — A slightly entrenched enclosure Farndon. 



If miles north-west of Towcester. 



Stow Nine Churches. — Here there is a long entrenchment called the 

 Larche. 



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