ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



HINTON WALDRIST. 



CASTLE MOUNTS WITH ATTACHED COURTS 



[CLASS E] 



Of fortified mounds with baileys attached only three occur in the 

 county. Of these one, Hinton Waldrist, has the mound outside the 

 fortified enclosure, while at the others, Wallingford and Windsor Castles, 

 the mounds are situated almost in the middle of the moated area. 



HINTON WALDRIST. The manor house at Hinton Waldrist stands 

 within a moat, more than half of which is still in existence, and partly 

 filled with water. To the north the 

 ground slopes away, and here there was 

 a vallum, forming the outer side of the 

 moat, part of which remains. On the 

 south-west, outside the moat is a high 

 mound, evidently part of the construc- 

 tion, with faint traces of a ditch around 

 it. 



WALLINGFORD, WALLINGFORD 

 CASTLE. This is another example of 

 the same form of construction, though here the earthworks have been 

 elaborated, probably at a later date. The mound is in the centre of the 

 southern side, and a deep trench runs round part of its circumference. 

 Round it, stretching to the north to include the bailey, are three other 

 moats, which are not, however, on the east, where we find traces of for- 

 midable bastions and other defences which guarded the side exposed to 

 the river. 



WINDSOR CASTLE. We should perhaps consider the earthworks 

 existing at Windsor Castle as a specimen of a fortified mount with a 

 bailey attached, for there are traces of this formation still to be seen, 



though the 

 buildings and 

 alterations of 

 later times have 

 to some extent 

 obscured the 

 original form. 1 

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WINDSOR CASTLE. 



Tower still 

 stands on the 

 summit of a cir- 

 cular mound, 

 more than 270 

 feet in diameter 



at its base and about 50 feet in height, partially surrounded by a ditch or 

 moat, which made the complete circuit in earlier days. 



1 The accompanying plan is based upon information kindly supplied by Mr. W. H. St. John 

 Hope, M.A. 



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