A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



From the north, eastwards, the fosse of the bailey is a huge excavation, 

 with a scarp of 38 ft. and a counterscarp of 25 ft., but where the outer 

 fosse branches from that of the mount the base rises and the two sides are 

 brought to a level at the east, where they are nearly twenty feet above the 

 base of the fosse. On the east the fosse has been blocked with earth, and 

 forms a cart track. South of this modern causeway the fosse continues as 

 a large pond for a length of 340 ft., beneath a scarp of 18 ft., after which it 

 has been filled in and the gardens of cottages cover it beneath a scarp of 

 14 ft. Another portion of the fosse is seen in the village pond, and yet 

 farther west — on the south side — it is covered by an inn, behind which it is 

 again in evidence with a scarp of 1 8 ft. and a counterscarp of 7 ft. The 

 scarp turns north and gradually rises to 48 ft. at a point round which it 

 originally amalgamated with the fosse of the mount ; now it runs into the 

 branch fosse protecting the southern side of the later quadrangular court. 

 To the west of the bailey is another small angular area with an outer fosse 



6 ft. deep, access to 

 i-"'i""i'iiii"- which from the in- 



terior could only 

 have been gained by 

 a bridge. At the 

 north and north-east 

 of these works is a 

 third fosse 18 ft. 

 wide and 5 ft. deep, 

 apparently of a 

 much later period. 



Gazeley (xliii, 

 10). — Denham 

 Castle, 'Castle 

 Holes,' is 6 miles 

 south-west by west 

 from Bury St. Ed- 

 munds. The mount of this castle, 10 ft. in height, with a concave sum- 

 mit, lies within the north-eastern side of the circuit of an oval bailey, 

 the fosse at that point being common to both the keep and the court. 

 The whole work is greatly worn, and the fosse surrounding the mount 

 is now but 4 ft. 6 in. deep. One noteworthy feature is the very wide 

 and low bank around the western half of the bailey ; it rises 4 ft. from 

 the interior, and is 30 ft. broad, forming a wide platform whereon the 

 warriors could take their stand behind a palisade. The scarp of this varies ; 

 on the north it is 14 ft. into a fosse of 9 ft. deep ; towards the west 

 both the scarp and counterscarp of the fosse are 9 ft., which are reduced 

 to 5 ft. at the south-west, where the fosse is 42 ft. wide. The entrance 

 is on the south, and on its eastern side the vallum, or platform, has been 

 dug away, and the site of it, together with the fosse, now provides a pond 

 100 ft. broad. A slightly raised bank running through the centre of the 

 court has probably been an agricultural division in a post-mediaeval age. 



H AUGHLEY (xlvi, 1 4) . — Haughley, or Hagenet, Castle, 2I miles north-north- 

 west from Stowmarket, is the most perfect earthwork of this type in the county. 



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Denham Castle 



