ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



rock, with a fair prospect of a wide cultivated valley to the west. It is 

 from 560 to 580 feet above the sea level, and about half that height 

 above the valley immediately below it. On this commanding site William 

 Peverel had a castle as well as at Castleton in the Peak, and the custody 

 of these two strongholds was usually in the same hands during the Norman 

 period. The keep of the Norman castle stood on the site of the present 

 castle, and some of the old foundations remain. There was probably at 

 that time a small bailey or inner court on the plateau to the south-east ; 

 part of its intrenchment seems to appear near the corner of Castle Street. 



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