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A HISTORY OF KENT 



(2) A court-yard or bailey, the rampart and ditch of which is more or 

 less perfect. The ditches of the two enclosures may have once run into 



one another, but there is 

 ^ ^^^:^ .^\ .+ _ no sign of the junction. 



W atling Street runs two 

 miles distant on the north, 

 the Pilgrim Way three 

 and a half miles south. 



T HO R NHAM (or 



Thurnham) : BiNBURy 

 Castle. — This work, 

 situated about four miles 

 north-east of Maidstone, 

 consists of a mound or 

 raised enclosure, deeply 

 fossed, and a court-yard, 

 standing about 520 ft. 

 above sea-level, with 

 slightly higher land on 

 the south-east, and some- 

 what lower on the north-west. The position is without natural defence, 

 being tableland of the North Downs. The artificial oval-shaped mount 

 is 35 ft. above the lowest part of the ditch which surrounds it, and the 

 summit forms a practically level platform. Upon the west a slight outer 

 rampart, or scarp, appears to have formed part of the original plan, and 

 may have extended much further round. A court-yard protected by a 

 stone wall existed on the south-east ; portions of the wall still remain, 

 2 J ft. thick, also a small tower, but there is no trace of the rampart and 

 ditch usually found with strongholds of the mount and court type. It 

 will be noticed that Thornham, or Goddard's Castle, also consisted of a 

 mount and court-yard, the latter protected by a stone wall instead of a 

 rampart and 



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Stockbury Castle. 



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ditch ; hence 

 these two places 

 show a form of 

 defence which 

 may be a link 

 between strong- 

 holds of the 

 mount and court 

 type (E) and 

 those having 

 now a mount 

 only (Class D), 

 for the stone 



walls which protected the courts of the latter, if they ever existed, would 

 rapidly be carried away when the castles were destroyed. It is hard to 



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iNBURY Castle, Thornham. 



