A HISTORY OF KENT 



the work is not due to more modern fancy on the part of an owner of 

 the estate/ 



Lamberhurst : Scotney Castle. — This picturesque ruin will be 

 described in another section of this History, but so much of its defence 

 having depended on its wide and deep moat it is thought well to include 

 a plan in this chapter. 



Leeds : Leeds Castle. — Though one of the most remarkable 

 feudal strongholds in England, this has so little defensive work of the 

 class treated of in this article that it is not necessary to give a plan. 

 The castle is wholly of stone, and its description will fall into another 

 section of this History, but it is well to note the clever engineering 

 which created a double island and rendered the place of great defensive 

 strength even before the erection of stone walls and towers. 



Milton (near Sittingbourne) : Castle Rough. — It is very 

 doubtful whether this is the work thrown up by Hasten, the Dane, in 



A.D. 893, but as that 

 view is held by many 

 we mention the tradi- 

 tion." 



Though not large 

 enough to serve an 

 army it is probably of 



■^ ~ have sheltered Danish 

 marauders whose boats 

 could lie protected in 

 the water which 

 flooded all the land 

 immediately east and 

 south ; or perchance a Saxon or later settler here constructed strong 

 defence against the Danish enemy. 



The earthworks lie on slightly rising ground just where the marsh 

 joins the higher land, sloping down from the west and within a short 

 distance of Milton Creek. 



The fosse, or moat, on the south-west side is about 12 ft. below 

 the enclosed mount, and a little less on other sides. 



As the top of the mount slopes gently from north-west to south- 

 east it appears to be the original level of the hillside, little raised by 

 ballast from the surrounding moat, which may have been used in rearing 

 ramparts, some portions of which appear to have remained when Hasted 

 wrote, but have now disappeared.' 



Minster (Isle of Thanet) : Cheesman's Camp. — The farm- 

 house known as Cheesman's Farm is in the parish of Acol, but the 



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Castle Rough, Milton. 



' Colonel E. Wyndham Grevis Bailey, the owner, has an early print of the Court, which shows 

 rectangular stew-ponds to the north-east of the circular work first mentioned. 

 ' See Sittingbourne, Bayiord Court, post. 



» Hasted, Hist. Kent (1782), ii. gives a striking bird's-eye view of the earthwork. 

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