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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS and fosse are now of no great strength, and a great portion of the latter contains water. The escarpment varies from 4 ft, on the north-west to 6 ft. on the south-west, but the rampart has largely been absorbed in gardening operations. Stowlangtoft (xxxiv, 15). — The Church of St. George — 7 miles east- by-north from Bury St. Edmunds — is situated within the entrenchments of an oblong camp. The circumvallation consisted of a double vallum and fosse. The works are most clearly defined on the eastern and northern sides of the churchyard ; on the east the inner fosse is 3 ft. deep and 15 ft. wide, the outer one is the same depth, but only 10 ft. broad ; the depth is retained on the north, but the fosse narrows to 8 ft. The road from Pakenham to Stowlangtoft borders, and has destroyed, the southern side of the camp, leaving a scarp only, 6 ft. deep. A spear-head and coins have been found here. Sutton (Ixxvii, 10). — In Bussack Wood, 4 miles south-east from Woodbridge, a small circular camp may be traced, of slight elevation with an indication of a fosse on the south-eastern side, which is also just visible on the north. MOUNTS (Class D) Burgh (Ixvii, 10). — In ' Castle Field,' north of the church, 3J miles north-west-by-west from Woodbridge, faint indications of a mount and fosse are discernible within an angle of a Roman camp ; an example of the utiliza- tion of early entrenchments by a later people. The whole area being under cultivation the plough has nearly obliterated the works. The description of the earlier entrenchments will be found in Class C. Combs (Ivi, 10). — In 'Jack's Grove' plantation, north-west of the village. If miles south-west from Stowmarket, is a small circular mount. A shallow fosse and outer bank remain around the northern half. Great Ashfield (xxxiv, 16). — 'Castle Hill,' in Parker's Wood, south- east of Hunston, 8 miles north-east- by east from Bury St. Edmunds, is a very rotund mount. It is 1 30 ft. in diameter at the base and rises to a height of 24 ft. An irregular circle in plan, it has an ovalsummit slightly depressed — or saucer-shaped — in the middle. A fosse, 18 ft. wide and 7 ft. deep at its highest part, com- pletely surrounds it. G R o T o N (Ixxiii, 1 5). — ' Pytches Mount ' is situated in Groton Park, 5J miles east from Sudbury. The mount, nearly 200 ft. in diameter at the base. Castli Hill, Great Ashfield 591