ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



RECTANGULAR OR OTHER SIMPLE INCLOSURES 



(CLASS C) 

 Examples of rectangular earthworks remain at 



MUSWELL HILL, near Brill, where the site abounds in flints ; 

 GREAT MISSENDEN. One at Reddenwych Wood, and another on 

 Castle Hill, called Rookwood Camp ; 

 SHENLEY CHURCH END ; and 

 WHADDON. 



FORTS CONSISTING ONLY OF A MOUNT WITH 

 ENCIRCLING DITCH OR FOSSE 



(CLASS D) 



At Cublington, six miles to the north-east of Aylesbury, there is a work 

 known as ' the Beacon,' marked as a tumulus on the Ordnance Survey map, 

 which may be placed under Class D, as it appears to have been a castle 

 mount. 



MOUNTS WITH ONE OR MORE ATTACHED COURTS 



(CLASS E) 



Buckinghamshire furnishes only a few examples of moated mounts with 

 courts, or baileys, attached. In addition to those which remain, it is 

 possible that the earthwork defences of Buckingham Castle were of the 

 moated mount and bailey type. The small engraved bird's-eye view in Speed's 

 early seventeenth-century map shows an eminence marked ' Castell Hill,' 

 which certainly suggests this ; but as the site has been entirely altered and 

 levelled it is impossible to say positively. 



CASTLE THORPE. The evidence for this belonging to Class E is not 

 very strong, but the mount is clearly defined, and in the case of one of the 

 baileys or in- 

 closures, part of 

 the defences 

 consists of dou- 

 ble ramparts. 

 The parish 

 church, as in 

 the case of two 

 other Bucking- 

 hamshire sites, 

 is built within 

 the precincts of 

 the more an- 

 cient earth- SCALEOFFECT '//imV <!' M, -,/ Ch< 

 works,doubtless 9 '9<> too 3QQ Mar y* 



for protection. EARTHWORKS AT CAVTLI THORPE 



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