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 A HISTORY OF BEDFORDSHIRE ditch. The two are contained within another ditch, which communi- cated at each end with the river. Beyond this, covering the south- western front, is the outer ward, and beyond this again the outer ditch, which commences at the south-east corner of the mill lead, covers the south-western front, and at the north-western angle sweeps round to join 55 ■So EATON SOCON i. o, o « I c I the ditch already mentioned, and thus, through it to communicate with the river at the north-east corner of the work.' ' The inner ward is slightly the higher of the two. Around it the fosse is some 40 to 50 feet wide, and still has water in the south return. Round three parts of this ward over the ditch the rampart still remains Mediaval Mi/itary Archit. 298 36.