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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS Conquest, and to the latter the castle mount may probably be assigned. It is elliptical, with the longer axis east and west, and the scarp at the north-east, the highest point, is nearly 22 ft. vertical. From the middle of the eastern side an inclined plane descends southwards from the summit to the ground level ; this is probably an original entrance, though possibly it has lost much of its former character through the vicissitudes of later ages. The plan of the bailey is lost, but a portion of a double fosse and vallum remain on the north side, and, from the arc described by them, it is evident that a base court was inclosed on the south-east, between the mount and the church ; the building of FEET 300 the mediaeval manor-house the ' Old Hall ' on one side and the railway on the other, have, however, effectually com- bined their ancient and mo- dern require- mentsto destroy all signs of it. The fragment of the inner fosse is worn to a great width and of no appre- ciable depth; the vallum has a scarp of 4 ft. into the outer fosse which is 15 ft. wide at point A. Beyond these works, to the north-east, on declining ground, are other entrenchments ; first a quadrangle, and farther down the slope straight lines of triple vallum and double ditch ; but as they appear to belong to the manorial defences rather than to the earlier stronghold, they will be treated under Class G. HALLATON (xxxix, 14). 'CASTLE HILL CAMP,' seven miles north- east from Market Harborough, upon a rounded hill among many of similar formation, but somewhat steeper, which rises on the west of the village, is a large conical mount 630 ft. in circumference at the base, 118 ft. in diameter at the top which has a slight saucer-shaped depression and 259 CASTLE HILL, GROBY, NEAR RATBY