ANCIENT DEFENSIVE EARTHWORKS 



Warwick, has persistently identified this moated mount with the fortress 

 recorded in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle to have been built upon the spot 

 by Ethelfleda, the Lady of the Mercians, in the year 913.' Such tradi- 

 tion was noted in the Chronicle called by the name of Matthew of West- 

 minster as early as the fourteenth century. On the other hand, the 





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Section, after Burgess 



TANWORTH 



SCALE OF FEET 

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whole of the present mount and court fort may have been the later work 

 of one of the Norman custodians of the ' castle' of Tamworth. Careful 

 excavation is required to settle the question. 



TANWORTH (8 miles south of Birmingham). At Cheswick Green, 



1 Jngl.-Sax. Chron. (Rolls Ser.), i. 186, 187. 

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