A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



fragments of iron much corroded. This is a very similar result to that of the 

 excavations in the castle mounts at Penwortham (q.v.) and at Warrington 

 (q.v.). It show^s that the mount at Arkholme w^as originally only about 

 1 1 ft. high above the base court or bailey, and that after the wooden residence 



SCALE OF FEET 

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ENLARGED SECTION /romD./oE. 

 Scale 9 so 'oq^^^a- 



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Chapel Hill, Arkholme 



built upon it had been inhabited for a considerable period, it was raised some 

 9 ft., and a fresh timber residence probably erected upon its summit. There are 

 no signs of any masonry either upon the mount or defences of the bailey, so 

 that the earthworks can only have been palisaded. 



Arkholme church, a pre-Reformation chapel, is built with its 

 chancel almost within the former fosse of the mount, so that the latter 



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