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 A HISTORY OF HEREFORDSHIRE of a somewhat marshy nature. The earthworks are in a rough and imperfect state, but appear to have consisted of a circular platform surrounded by a moat, banked on the outside most of ' the way round, perhaps to obtain a water level. The work may be that of a castle mount, but it is as likely to have protected a homestead. Laysters Tump. — Five miles north-east of Leominster. The posi- tion has no natural defence, but the adjoining field has some signs of en- trenchment." Forty or fifty years ago the mount was partially excavated, thereby materially injuring the eastern side. The parish church stands about is one of the few formed in the eastern £0 soa' WooDviLLE Mount, Kington Jprtn^ LiNGEN Tump I GO ft. to the north. This 'tump portion of the county. LiNGEN Tump. — Three-quarters of a mile north-east of Lingen Castle, and 4| miles north-east of Presteigne. The tump is named on the Ordnance Survey maps a tumulus ; but as it stands near a stream, and is cut off from the higher land by a moating (a not unusual custom in the forming of defensive mounts), it is more likely to have been used for a border tower of wood or stone as an adjunct to the larger work of Lingen Castle. Small mounts are also found near the castles of Shobdon and Eardisland in this county. Llancillo. — Twelve miles south-west of Hereford. This castle mount is formed out of ground sloping north and east, 40 ft. above the River Monnow, which flows half a mile to the south-east. The position is slightly defended on the north by a stream and its swamp. The moat which now protects the north-west and south- east only once probably existed upon the south-west also ; upon the north-north-east there was no ditch, but the ground there was levelled or hollowed to catch the water from the stream. The foundations of a stone wall round the summit of the mount are still visible. Mansell Lacy. — Six miles north- west-by-west of Hereford. This small inclosure stands upon low ground, with the land on the north much higher. The position is slightly defended by the stream on the south and the marshy nature of the ground upon the immediate north and east. The entrenchment consists of a Farm HouMj ■1 St e*2 w. SCALE OF FEET *W. loo 200 300 ^ Llancillo Castle Mount " Trans. Woolhope Field Club (1890-2), 281. The mount has been mistaken for a burial tumulus. 228