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 ANCIENT DEFENSIVE EARTHWORKS The mount has often been supposed to be merely a sepul- chral tumulus ; but though the remains are now much muti- lated, these earth- works without doubt represent one of the moated mount and court forts of which we have such per- fect examples in the county at Brinklow and at Seckington. 1 As in these fortresses, the original stock- ades here were never replaced by subse- quent walls of ma- sonry ; this shows that the stronghold fell early into disuse. K i N G T o N GRANGE. See Cla- verdon. LADBROKE (7 miles south-east of Leamington). There is a small entrenchment on the confines of this parish, 2 miles east of the church of All Saints, and half way between Upper Rad- bourn Farm and the old Welsh road leading from Southam to Priors Hardwick. ,. >% It is situated on level ground, 360 feet ,^?> ^'^^'"v^ above the sea ; this slopes downwards at a short distance away on several sides, but is slightly lower than Lady Hill, on the other side of the hollow made by the tiny brook to the north-west. The remains now consist of little more than a ditch enclosing an irregular oblong area about twice as long as broad, and of rather more than an acre in extent. For- merly, however, according to a plan made by the late Mr. W. G. Fretton, F.S.A. in 1849," there was a perfect rampart all round the KINETOKf King John's Castle SCALE OF FEET IOO ZOO 300 %$$ LADBROKE SCALE OFFEET 100 aoo ' Burgess in B'ham. and Mid. Inst. Arch. Trans. (1872), p. 83 ; Turner's Sbaki. Land, p. 347. 1 MS. in writer's possession. 383