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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS consists of a rampart 4 ft. high, with an escarpment of 8 ft. at the south-west, increasing to 14 ft. towards the north-east of this 500 ft. of entrenchment. The fosse, 4 ft. deep, is towards the north-west. The most perfect part by the roadside was levelled in 1880. Another portion lying on the west of the road would, if extended, join the first length at right angles ; this consists of two lengths of fosse ; that at the north-east is 500 ft. long, the other branching from it at an obtuse angle and taking a south-westerly course is 600 ft., and finally takes a short curve to the west ; in this case the rampart has quite gone, and the ground being under the plough the fosse is only just traceable. The third portion is in a straight line from north-east to south-west, 1,800 ft. long, when it turns to the south for a distance of 600 ft. The southern portion of this is now a fosse only, with an escarpment of 20 ft. at its most perfect part, it was placed to the south-east of the rampart, but the latter has been levelled. The middle portion is a scarp only, and the most northerly part is a rampart. LiNDSEY (Ixxiii, 12). — A portion of one straight side of a manorial bank is behind the ancient chapel on Chapel Farm. Redisham (xviii, 10). — A manorial quadrangular bank lies to the south-west of Redisham Church, close to the south side of the road. Shimpling (Ixiii, 4). — 'The Warbanks ' ; see Lawshall. Sutton (Ixxvi, 4). — To the north of the tumuli at Sutton Haugh, near Woodbridge, is a long entrenchment of bank and fosse, the former 2 ft. high on the north with a scarp 4 ft. 6 in. into the ditch on the south ; this runs east and west ; at the east end it curves to the north, but has here been destroyed. At its western end another bank curves from the first at an acute angle in a northerly direction, with its ditch on the south-eastern side. Local rumours endow it with venerable antiquity ; but it was possibly a fold inclosure. Close to the same spot another low bank starts from the west of the northernmost barrow, and follows a southerly direction with its fosse on the east. These are doubtless land boundaries of a far later period than the tumuli between which it takes its course. Wangford (xii, 7). — On high chalk land are twenty-five bowl-like pits of oval form, of which the largest is 18 ft. in diameter and 5 ft. deep. Woodbridge (Ixvii, 16). — On the east of the town, alongside the north of the road, a length of bank indicates the ancient road before it was diverted to its present track. TUMULI AsHFiELD (xlviii, 13). — Near Thorpe Hall is Mill Mount, a flat-topped tumulus with a ditch around its base. Aldringham with Thorpe (Ix, 4 and 7). — Tumuli are situated on Aldring- ham Green, south of the vicarage. Another is on ' The Walks,' Aldringham Common, to the west of the railway line. Bardwell (xxiii, 11). — A large tumulus is in a field to the north of Bowbeck. Barton Mills (xxxii, i). — A tumulus is on Chalk Hill north of Chalk Hill Farm. I 625 79