ANCIENT DEFENSIVE EARTHWORKS 



The mount has 

 often been supposed 

 to be merely a sepul- 

 chral tumulus ; but 

 though the remains 

 are now much muti- 

 lated, these earth- 

 works without doubt 

 represent one of the 

 moated mount and 

 court forts of which 

 we have such per- 

 fect examples in the 

 county at Brinklow 

 and at Seckington. 1 

 As in these fortresses, 

 the original stock- 

 ades here were never 

 replaced by subse- 

 quent walls of ma- 

 sonry ; this shows 

 that the stronghold 

 fell early into disuse. 

 K i N G T o N 

 GRANGE. See Cla- 

 verdon. 



LADBROKE (7 

 miles south-east of 



Leamington). There is a small entrenchment on the confines of this 



parish, 2 miles east of the church of All 

 Saints, and half way between Upper Rad- 

 bourn Farm and the old Welsh road leading 

 from Southam to Priors Hardwick. 



,. >% It is situated on level ground, 360 feet 



,^?> ^'^^'"'''''''v'''''''^ above the sea ; this slopes downwards at a 



short distance away on several sides, but is 

 slightly lower than Lady Hill, on the other 

 side of the hollow made by the tiny brook to 

 the north-west. The remains now consist of 

 little more than a ditch enclosing an irregular 

 oblong area about twice as long as broad, and 

 of rather more than an acre in extent. For- 

 merly, however, according to a plan made by 

 the late Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A. in 1849," 

 there was a perfect rampart all round the 



KINETOKf 



King John's Castle 

 SCALE OF FEET 



IOO ZOO 



300 



%$$ 



LADBROKE 



SCALE OFFEET 



100 aoo 



' Burgess in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Trans. (1872), p. 83 ; Turner's Sbaki. Land, p. 347. 



1 MS. in writer's possession. 



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