A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



BURES MOUNT. The parish has from early date been distinguished 

 as Mount Bures, in contradistinction from the adjoining Bures St. Mary 

 in Suffolk. 



The mount with its surrounding moat covers about an acre and a 

 half, there are no distinct remains of outer works, and the fort seems to 

 have consisted mainly of the defenced mount, which Gough considered 

 the keep of a castle of the Sackvilles. 



The land to the west slopes rapidly to a brook, and on that side 

 the moat has been partially destroyed by excavation for sand. On other 

 sides the moat remains about 10 feet deep, the great mound rising 

 48 feet on the west and 38 feet on the east above the present level of 

 the moat. 



CANFIELD (GREAT). All antiquaries may be thankful for the state 

 of preservation in which the earthworks of Canfield Castle remain. 



Cteaf Canfie/tt. fssex. 



The work is second to none as an example of the methods of defence 

 adopted in its construction a great mound of earth, no doubt origin- 

 ally furnished with rings of wooden barrier defences, surrounded by 

 a deep moat fed with water by the diversion of a little stream from 

 its natural course, the mound still showing where one or more 

 courses of palisading surrounded it, and showing too breaks in its 

 ring, where probably approach and exit were effected by drawbridges ; 



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