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 A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE they were dammed by a number of artificial banks and fed by sluices from the Avon. These works are very extensive, covering perhaps 6 or 7 acres. The central moated mount, upon which the castle itself stood, is an almost square plateau and contains nearly an acre ; it has irregular additions and another smaller raised square on the east side ; only frag- / ^ r > X WM '*"'% ^viuuu^ V, ^,,rtiii,,. v ^ ^ ^V^viuuu^ ^ Xb (f** ^r% ^ /'r .11 ..v .A 4////x7 ^ /y? /// ill HJ i.O- ^ SECTION BRINKLOW SCALE or FEET IOO 2OO 300 N-fl. The entrenchments of the large cu-ea, to the south, are outside of the limits cfthvs plan ments of walls of masonry now survive, and Dugdale wrote of it as merely ' Moats and Heaps of Rubbish ' in 1656.' BRINKLOW (5 miles north-west of Rugby). Above and to the east of the churchyard in this village are some very imposing and re- 1 Dugdale's Warm. p. 32 ; Turner's Shaks. Land, p. 280 ; Timmins's Wane. p. 237. 360
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