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A HISTORY OF ESSEX 



The mound with its surrounding moat is only about 1 50 feet in 

 diameter, and the moat has been lessened in depth by centuries of 

 accumulation of leaves and decayed vegetation. Along the inner edge 



of the moat runs a bank, as at Berden, 

 giving a saucer-like form to the top of 

 the mound. 



Tw = =i /=5 E. FELSTEAD. There is a small mound 



%^/jijf^^ at Bannister Green known as the Quakers' 



Mount. Mr. J. French writes 1 : 'It 

 is from 15 to 20 feet high and some- 

 what oval, with a flat top, being about 

 20 paces long at the top and 18 broad. 

 Its sides incline at an angle of 45, and 

 it was formerly surrounded by a moat 



Mound in Castle Grove * J 



about o or 10 feet broad. Not quite 

 half of this moat still exists, the rest 

 having been filled in in great part by 

 earth removed from one end of the 



mound. The original symmetry can be well made out in spite of this 



mutilation.' 



HEDINGHAM (CASTLE). The noble twelfth century tower of 



Hedingham Castle has been the subject of artists' pencils and antiquaries' 



ELMDON ESSEX. 



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pens, but the great fosse and ramparts have seldom, if ever, been 

 depicted or described. That they were here long before the stone keep 

 is probable, but how long before we may not assert. 



1 Essex Naturalist, vi. loo. 

 294 



