A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



to whether it was of the Roman period or the mount of a Saxon stronghold 

 within the older lines. 



Chevington (xliii, i6). — Chevington Hall Farm, north of the church, 

 4J miles south-west from Bury, Around this farm-house are the remains of 

 an exceedingly strong camp of irregular plan, the western side being angular 

 and the eastern semicircular. The northern side consists of a fosse 60 ft. 

 wide and 14 ft. deep, gradually increasing in magnitude towards the north- 

 west. At a distance of 250 ft. from that angle is the commencement of a 

 heavy vallum, rising 9 ft. high from the interior, with a summit 26 ft. broad ; 

 from this point is an escarpment of 28 ft. into a fosse 104 ft. wide, and having 

 a counterscarp of 1 4 ft. On the western side is a continuation of the vallum 

 of the same height, but of narrower dimensions, with the same scarp and 

 counterscarp throughout, except at the south-west corner, where the escarp- 

 ment is 32 ft. The normal measurements of vallum and fosse are continued 

 along the south to the margin of a large pond, where they have been destroyed. 

 To the cast of the pond the original line of the vallum may yet be traced in 

 a broad semicircular bank 3 ft. high ; but the fosse has been filled up and a 

 roadway occupies part of its site. This stronghold was afterwards utilized 

 for the protection of a country house of the abbots of Bury which was built 

 within it. 



Clare (Ixxi, 3). — On the north-east of Clare Common, 6 miles east from 

 Haverhill, are extensive remains of a camp, irregularly quadrangular in plan, 



Camp at Clau 



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