A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 



The earthworks at Pilsbury have many points in common with 

 those of Mexborough, 1 though not so well defined. Mr. Andrew, who 

 has given much attention to this earthwork, considers it to be ' a typical 

 mount and bailey work.' 



14. THE BURIES (Ivii. 2) is the suggestive name of a remarkable 

 earthwork in Canons Meadows, which used to belong to the priory of 

 Repton, between the once double courses of the Trent, just below the 

 bridge to Willington. It is a rectangular enclosure measuring on the 

 north side 226 feet, on the south 205 feet, on the east 157 feet, and on 

 the west 164 feet. It is described by Mr. Hipkins, F.S.A., as 'a curious 

 parallelogram of raised earth which is supposed to be the remains of a 

 Roman camp, called Repandunum by Stebbing Shaw, the historian of 



Staffordshire, but he gives no proof for the assertion Within the 



four embankments are two rounded mounds, and parallel with the south 

 side are two inner ramparts, only one parallel with north. It is supposed 

 by some to be " a sacred area surrounding tumuli." The local name for 

 it is " The Buries." In my opinion it was raised and used by the Danes, 

 who in A.D. 874 visited Repton, and destroyed it before they left in 

 A.D. 875.' * 



15. In CASTLE WOOD (xxxvi. 9), near Range Farm, about a mile to 



the east of South Nor- 

 manton, is a rectangu- 

 lar moated enclosure 

 having a square of 

 about 225 feet from 

 the outer side of the 

 trench. In the centre is 

 a small raised mound, 

 and there is a larger 

 mound close to it on 

 the north-west. It 

 seems to have been 

 some form of an early 

 defensive work, altered 

 in mediaeval days. It 

 would probably repay 

 exploration. It is 

 termed 'Moat' on the 

 Ordnance Survey map, 

 but is certainly not to be 

 included under Home- 

 stead Moats. 



1 1), on the high ground in the 

 Norman occupation of this site. 



SCALE OFFEET 

 OO ftOO 3OO 



CASTLE WOOD. 



1 6. The name BOROUGH HILL (lix. 

 parish of Walton-on-Trent, points to pre- 



1 Jour*. Brit. Arch. Assoc. N.S. x. 39 ; Clark's Medieval Castles, i. 25. 



* Repton and its Neighbourhood (znd ed. 1899), p. 3 ; on pi. iv. is a ground plan. Mr. Andrew 

 thinks a Danish ninth-century origin for this earthwork is probably correct. 



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