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averages 20 feet across, and is strong on all four sides. The eastern 
rampart has been mostly removed. The entrance appears to have been 
at the north-east angle close under a small circular mound on the 
rampart, rising a foot or two above it, and 20 feet across the top, 
which is edged all round by the root of a small bank which may 
have been the base of a stockaded tower. The fields to the south 
and east are scored with traces of other lines, where probably the rest 
of the station stood, but they are too faint to decipher. The ground 
slopes from east to west, so that the west end of the little fort rises 
considerably above the lower levels. It seems to have been a kind of 
projecting exterior keep. Its local name is ‘ Gannock’s Castle’ or ‘The 
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Gannicks.’ At the close of the campaign the place was stormed by the 
English with great slaughter of its defenders. It is very probable that 
this and other works of the kind became, later on, the site of defended 
homesteads, as they could easily have been adapted for the purpose. 
(3) Witiincton.—Four miles nearer to Bedford, still on the south 
of the Ouse, there is another work with certain unusual features, which 
appear to mark it also as Danish. It stands on the old original bank of 
the river, which flows immediately beneath it. The former river bed 
lies between it and the northern original bank, half a mile across, and is 
wholly covered in times of flood. The site of the camp is a plain, 
and all the lines of entrenchment are dug out much on one level. 
There is an inner ward, an outer ward and a wide exterior enclosure. 
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