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 A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE timber to the keep-mound, as described in a passage relating to a French example, quoted by Mr. G. T. Clark. 1 If this entrance were forced, the assailants would find themselves under the necessity of moving round the deep inner ditches to attack the mound and several wards which towered 4ritinitw,,i< CAIN HOE SCALE OF FEET 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. 3 1 Media-val Military Archtt. (1884), i. 33. The date of the stair and bridge was about the beginning of the twelfth century. 3 This fortress was evidently the head of the barony of ' Albini of Cainho.' 292