A HISTORY OF KENT 



on the plan between the mount and bailey, now (a.d. 1905) occupied by 

 soldiers' quarters, being taken up with the complete ditches to the mount 

 and bailey, a rampart being thus formed between the two. The space 

 shown on the plan on the south immediately above the cliffs is undu- 

 lating by nature and slopes downward towards the south, south-east and 

 south-west ; it has of late been levelled in places for the erection of 



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Dover Castli (Plan of Norman Defences). 



buildings, but does not appear to have formed an enclosure in early 

 days. The great central works, apart from their own individual en- 

 trenchments, were defended by one deep ditch and inner rampart 

 beginning and ending at the cliffs, and upon this rampart stands a wall 

 of masonry of various dates : upon the north-west the inner bank is 

 wanting, and the original state of the space between the bailey and the 



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