ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 
This outer moat has no rampart, and proceeds almost due north and 
south, dying out before it shows any sign of turning. From this moat 
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CONGER HILL, 
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the site slopes gradually away to the south, where there are remains of a 
large bank near a brook, which was probably a dam. No signs of the 
outermost enclosing lines are now apparent. Fisher publishes a view of 
Conger Hill in his Co/lections (1812). The Lysons* stated that near it 
were ‘ considerable earthworks’ in their time.’ 
(4) Tue ‘Bury Hu,’ Tuurteicu.—Fisher’s drawing finely shows 
the impressive nature of the great moated mound at this place, and its 
near association with the church, in which is a tower and north door of 
early Norman date. It also stands on a lofty height, which slopes rapidly 
down to a low-lying stream on the west and south. The mound was 
of the conical type with its summit in two levels, the higher of which is 
crowned by a small circular hold with low ramparted edge. In the 
centre of this stands a great walnut tree 12 feet in girth. There is no 
bank anywhere else on the mound, which rises some 23 feet above the 
bottom of the fosse, on the east, where the work is best preserved. The 
fosse is about 25 feet across and 8 or ro feet in depth on the east, north and 
west. Here there are also fine remains of the great rampart on the outer 
edge of the scarp. On the south side all these features are almost worked 
1 Mag. Brit. i. 143. 
2 At the time of Domesday Toddington was a large and very valuable manor held in demesne by 
Ernulf de Hesdin. 
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