ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



STRONG DEFENSIVE INCLOSURES 



(CLASS G) 



An earthwork which apparently belongs to this class is the circular 

 moat-like work which incloses Hawridge Court. 



ANCIENT VILLAGE SITES 



(CLASS H) 



There is an important inclosure, once stockaded, which may be placed 

 in this class, at Hoggeston, a parish in the north of the county, situated 

 3$ miles to the south-east of Winslow. The following particulars have been 

 very kindly furnished by the Rev. C. H. Tomlinson, rector of Hoggeston. 



The inclosure, which is oblong in shape with rounded corners, is of 

 large size, measuring nearly a quarter of a mile from east to west, and about 

 one-eighth part of a mile from north to south. The inclosing ditch is more 

 pronounced on the east and west sides than on the north and south, but it is 

 quite clearly traceable all round. Towards the north-east corner of and 

 within the inclosure there is a pond, and there is another pond on the south 

 side, and still another close to the eastern ditch on the outside. The church 

 and rectory house are inside the inclosure. 



The probability is that this was an original settlement in the Forest of 

 Bernwood, entrenched and stockaded as a defence against wild beasts and 

 unfriendly neighbours. 



MISCELLANEOUS EARTHWORKS 



(CLASS X) 



GREAT MISSENDEN : EARTHWORKS IN BRAY'S WOOD. The rectangular 

 banks of which these works consist comprise a complete square inclosure 

 with an imperfect oblong inclosure 

 partly surrounding it, but lying 

 mainly to the west. In the present 

 condition of the works it is not 

 possible to say whether the three 

 remaining sides of the oblong were 

 ever completed by a fourth side in 

 such a way as entirely to surround 

 the square work, but there are one 

 or two points which seem to indicate 

 that such was not the case. The 

 probability is that the square por- 

 tion of the entrenchments was 

 constructed for the protection of a 

 dwelling-house or small collection 

 of houses, whilst the oblong addition 



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