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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS rampart rises 3 ft. in height, and it has an obtuse escarpment of 38 ft. into a fosse with a counterscarp of 9 ft. The east side has a wider fosse and a small bank on the height of the counterscarp. At the north-east and south- O.^V."." r M7n ^X. -- * ...... ' f -o V 1 '^ SCALEOF FEET O IOO 10O 300 ''WA','. tnit nt t, c '- '' J f*^LL/ffnitt '<. -^'nii, i - ^^SSSSisk rf/ BURY CAMP, RATBY west angles the vallum rises to a greater height and at the former is a fragment of a slightly raised circular platform. There are a number of gaps in the circumvallation ; four of them, one in each side, are no doubt entrances ; so apparently are two other openings near the eastern angles, that at the northern looked down upon by the afore- said platform, and that on the south defended by a rise in the vallum to 8 ft. perpendicular measurement. At point C is a modern opening. SAPCOTE (xliii, 6). Three and a half miles east from Hinckley. The site of Sap- cote Castle on the west side of the village is a square area with a vallum and fosse on the north, west, and south sides. The vallum is 4 ft. high, perpendicular measurement, and the fosse is broad but shallow. The eastern side is bounded by a plateau of higher ground, descending on to the castle site by a bank 25 ft. on the scarp. This higher area would appear to have been a part of the original works, and contains three de- pressions in the ground ; but the invasion of buildings and other rearrangements have altered the former features. Thoresby mentions that the works were being filled up in his time. TILTON (xxxiii, 14). Eleven miles north of Market Harborough. On Howbank Hill, west of the railway, is a plateau from which an escarpment 253 SITE OF SAPCOTE CASTLE, SAPCOTE