A HISTORY OF KENT 



EwELL, near Dover. — In Petrie's list of earthworks we find 

 reference to lines of defensive work in Lousyberry Wood, also three 

 tumuli.' The traces are vague and much destroyed, but there appears 

 to have been a low-banked, nearly rectangular enclosure, with an outer 

 line of bank on the north-east and south-east side. 



HuNTON : Amsbury. — This entrenchment stands upon undulating 

 ground some 420 to 480 ft. above sea-level, and 400 ft. above the rivers 



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Medway, one and three-quarters of a mile north, and Bewlt, one and a 

 half south. The position is to a limited extent naturally defended on 

 the south by the fall of the hill, which however is of no great steepness. 

 The form of the work is curious, and resembles neither that of an early 

 fortress nor of a feudal stronghold. The mount occupying the north- 

 east corner is fairly well marked, but is of small base and height, and has 



1 Arch. Cant. (1880), xiii. 

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