ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 
On the east of this main enclosure are two great closes, each 
of them also defended by a vigorous bank and moat. On the south near 
the river are remains of large fishponds. There is no doubt that we 
have here the original enclosing works of the priory, for at some time in 
the sixteenth century they seem to have been considered insufficient, and 
a wall was added outside the exterior moat, built of rubble and clay and 
coped in red brick. This may have been done when the mansion was 
erected after the suppression. ‘The cottage belonging to the monastery 
mill still stands. 
At Warden (1135), Elstow, Biscot, Harrold and Ruxox there are 
similar remains of the enclosing ramparts and moats, and no doubt on 
other monastic sites which have not been examined. 
rampart is always inside the moat. 
There are a few instances of moated works on high ground, with 
the central hold mounded up a few feet to a uniform level, and with a 
wide deep moat surrounding it. ‘The area thus outlined averages some 
100 to 150 feet each way. These works have all the extensive outer 
enceinte of bank and ditch common to both manor and monastery, and 
often church and fishponds. ‘There are examples at Hockliffe, Colm- 
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worth and Podington. They are evidently manorial, but being of the 
weaker transitional type are included in this class. 
Amongst later works on lower ground are the castle sites of 
Someries near Luton, and Eaton Bray, where there were fifteenth-century 
brick buildings, with considerable remains of quadrangular moats. Later 
medieval manor houses also, on low-lying ground, with considerable 
moats still remaining, stood at Netherstead, Beggary, Chawston, Wybos- 
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