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 A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE bailey, and is returned along the short east end, where it ceases at the mound. Outside this the moat continues, joining those round the mound and the eastern enclosures. On the west side the brook runs through this moat, which appears to have been continued outside the long bank, described, YELDEN 'mnnvOF thus making a double moat along this flank. The road has here modified the works to some extent. There appears to have been an eastern approach to the mound and keep between two small moats across the enclosure there. It was quite in keeping with such works that many of the ramparts 290