A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE 
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assailants would find themselves under the necessity of moving round the 
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above them, all of them no doubt with stockaded sides. A considerable 
portion of the lower slopes of the ground is enclosed by the outer enciente, 
with traces of rampart and ditch. At the western angle is a long piece 
of standing water towards which the outer lines are tending. There is 
no church or village here.” 
1 Medieval Military Archit. (1884), i. 33. 
beginning of the twelfth century. 
2 This fortress was evidently the head of the barony of ‘ Albini of Cainho.’ 
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The date of the stair and bridge was about the 
