ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



consists of a rampart 4 ft. high, with an escarpment of 8 ft. at the south-west, 

 increasing to 14 ft. towards the north-east of this 500 ft. of entrenchment. 

 The fosse, 4 ft. deep, is towards the north-west. The most perfect part by 

 the roadside was levelled in 1880. Another portion lying on the west of the 

 road would, if extended, join the first length at right angles ; this consists of 

 two lengths of fosse ; that at the north-east is 500 ft. long, the other branching 

 from it at an obtuse angle and taking a south-westerly course is 600 ft., and 

 finally takes a short curve to the west ; in this case the rampart has quite 

 gone, and the ground being under the plough the fosse is only just traceable. 

 The third portion is in a straight line from north-east to south-west, 1,800 ft. 

 long, when it turns to the south for a distance of 600 ft. The southern 

 portion of this is now a fosse only, with an escarpment of 20 ft. at its most 

 perfect part, it was placed to the south-east of the rampart, but the latter has 

 been levelled. The middle portion is a scarp only, and the most northerly 

 part is a rampart. 



LiNDSEY (Ixxiii, 12). — A portion of one straight side of a manorial bank 

 is behind the ancient chapel on Chapel Farm. 



Redisham (xviii, 10). — A manorial quadrangular bank lies to the 

 south-west of Redisham Church, close to the south side of the road. 



Shimpling (Ixiii, 4). — 'The Warbanks ' ; see Lawshall. 



Sutton (Ixxvi, 4). — To the north of the tumuli at Sutton Haugh, near 

 Woodbridge, is a long entrenchment of bank and fosse, the former 2 ft. high 

 on the north with a scarp 4 ft. 6 in. into the ditch on the south ; this runs 

 east and west ; at the east end it curves to the north, but has here been 

 destroyed. At its western end another bank curves from the first at an acute 

 angle in a northerly direction, with its ditch on the south-eastern side. 

 Local rumours endow it with venerable antiquity ; but it was possibly a fold 

 inclosure. 



Close to the same spot another low bank starts from the west of the 

 northernmost barrow, and follows a southerly direction with its fosse on the 

 east. These are doubtless land boundaries of a far later period than the 

 tumuli between which it takes its course. 



Wangford (xii, 7). — On high chalk land are twenty-five bowl-like pits 

 of oval form, of which the largest is 18 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. 



Woodbridge (Ixvii, 16). — On the east of the town, alongside the north 

 of the road, a length of bank indicates the ancient road before it was diverted 

 to its present track. 



TUMULI 



AsHFiELD (xlviii, 13). — Near Thorpe Hall is Mill Mount, a flat-topped 

 tumulus with a ditch around its base. 



Aldringham with Thorpe (Ix, 4 and 7). — Tumuli are situated on Aldring- 

 ham Green, south of the vicarage. Another is on ' The Walks,' Aldringham 

 Common, to the west of the railway line. 



Bardwell (xxiii, 11). — A large tumulus is in a field to the north of 

 Bowbeck. 



Barton Mills (xxxii, i). — A tumulus is on Chalk Hill north of Chalk 

 Hill Farm. 



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