Contribution Towards a Complete List of Moated Mounds or Burhs

Scattered broadcast over all parts of England, and found occasionally in parts of Wales and in the lowlands of Scotland, are certain earthworks of a peculiar character, and which should not be confounded with those of British or Boman origin, though occasionally superimposed upon them.Their chief and most striking characteristic is a circular mound, table topped, and surrounded by a deep and broad ditch, out of which, where the mound is wholly artificial, it has been formed.Appended to the mound, outside of, or beyond its ditch, are one or two enclosures, abutting upon the ditch of the mound, and contained within banks of earth, defended by an extensive ditch, communicating with the ditch of the mound.These mounds are of various sizes, from 30 to 40 ft.high from the general level, and from 50 to 70 ft.from the bottom of the ditch, and from 60 to 120 ft. in diameter at the top.The appended enclosures range from a quarter of an acre to two acres, and in plan, when original, they are what, in fortifications, are called " lunettes," and are parts of irregular circles.The banks are from 10 to 20 ft.high, and of no great breadth at the top.Sometimes the mound stands within the circuit of the yol.xlyi (No. 183)

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  Open Access•Rachel E Swallow, Rachel Swallow•Offa s Dyke Journal•2022

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