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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS the mound is now level. Red roofing tiles of modern make occur in different points on the south of the oval some few inches below the surface. It is possible that the mound has been occupied for gardening purposes, as the Elizabethan manor house, burnt down eighty years ago, stood near it to the north. The church stands on the south angle of the park, and near the narrow pack-horse bridge of the same date. There are various faint lines of what may possibly be works in the neighbourhood. BLETSOE CASTLE SCALE OF FEET O IOO 20O 30(3 JL r (5) Bletsoe Castle. — The earthworks here are of interest be- cause of the fine fosse, averaging 55 feet in width by about 15 feet in depth, which originally enclosed the central hold. About two-thirds of 301