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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… feature still survived as an earthwork at that date, the ditch varying between 1 m. and 2 m. in depth, but it has … bank was 2 m. across and 0.6 m. high with an outer ditch 1.4 m. deep. Fig. 123 Whittlebury (4) Roman villa … with a large building on it, and a bridge across the ditch on the E., near the S.E. corner, leading to other …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… about him to see what was doing, he was squatted in a ditch almost smothered in a cloak. This is most abominable, …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… site (5) (Fig. 125). Prehistoric and Roman c(1) Ring Ditch (?) (SP 77053775), on the flood plain of the Great Ouse … Air photographs (not seen by RCHM) are said to show a ring ditch and linear features ( BNFAS, 5 (1971), 41). c(2) Roman … by the farm on the S.W., and on the N.W. by a low bank and ditch which separate them from the adjacent ridge-and-furrow. …
A History of the County of Northampton
… in Wicken is a feature identified as a prehistoric ring ditch discovered on the flood plain of the Great Ouse. Also …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… 18 by the 1220s mainly bounded on the east by Soham Mere ditch. 19 That fen stretched from Northup fen (75 a.), … 33 In 1286 a villager complained that a recently made ditch obstructed his cattle's passage from the village to … for the Fodder fen, already bounded by 1598 by a New ditch, 61 Wicken's fens were steadily taken into severalty …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex
… S. arm and part of the E. arm are obliterated. Traces of a ditch, probably the original outlet, are visible in a field …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 60 yards square, planted with fir, and surrounded by a ditch. Wiggonholt WIGGONHOLT, a parish, in the hundred of …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Hertfordshire
… stonework is crumbling away. Unclassified b(3). Grim's Ditch (see also Great Berkhampstead, Northchurch, and Tring), … the bank being 4 ft. and the counter-scarp 6 ft. above the ditch, which lies to the S.W. and is 40 ft. wide from crest … the bank is 5 ft., and the counter-scarp 2 ft. above the ditch, which is 30 ft. across. The levels on the whole are …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… of the main castle have been formed by cutting a ditch across the spur to the N.W. and steepening the natural … are partly lost on the S. A causeway across the inner ditch forms the approach to the gatehouse, and a second … N.W. from the keep to the top of the spur beyond the keep-ditch, where a slight mound has been formed. S.E. of the …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… possible Round Barrow, see (11) below. b(1) Double Ring Ditch (SP 81818825), immediately E. of the village, on the S. … an earlier levelled platform some 0.5 m. high which has a ditch on its E. side. The appearance of the mound suggests … with the abbey. Around it to the N. is a narrow drainage ditch of unknown date. Fig. 155 Wilbarston (10) Dam, (11) …