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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Hucknall parish, for many generations the home of the Savage family, has a small piece of the old moat remaining, of semi-circular shape. 23. WESTON-ON-TRENT (Iv. 15). The largest homestead moat in Derbyshire is that which enclosed the old hall of Weston, said by Lysons to have been built by the Ropers early in the seventeenth century. The Ropers' hall, however, succeeded to one of greater antiquity. The narrow moat is fairly perfect on the north and south, in each case having a length of about 550 feet ; there are also some remains on the east side of the large square of the enclosure, but nothing is left on the west. The distance from the north piece of the moat to that on the south is OLD HALL, WESTON-ON-TBENT. about 700 feet. It will be noticed on the plan that there are indications both on the north and the east of a second or inner moat, but the remains are not sufficiently clear to state this with certainty. Double homestead moats are occasionally found ; but in such cases the inner one is generally immediately round the actual house. If this was the case at Weston, the old mediaeval house must have stood to the north of that which is now standing. 24. WINGFIELD MANOR HOUSE (xxxv. 14). The remains of earthworks and what is usually termed a moat though probably always dry about the ruins of this great fifteenth-century house are