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ANCIENT EARTHWORKS SULHAMPSTEAD. There is a moat here round the Moat Farm. There are also some ditches between the railway and the river Kennet, which may perhaps be the Danish camp referred to by Gough and other writers. 1 SWALLOWFIELD. Near the river Loddon, and not far from White's Green, is a square moat, which is supposed to be the site of Beaumys Castle. Near Sheepbridge Mill, on the same river, is an oval moat, partly filled with water, surrounding the Court Farm, while there are traces of a small square moat to the immediate south. TUBNEY. There are two sides still remaining of a moat which formerly surrounded the Manor Farm. UFFINGTON. An irregularly shaped moat, in a very good state of preservation, still surrounds Hardwell Farm. Three sides are filled with water. WALLINGFORD. An almost square moat, with rounded corners, surrounds the house and garden of the old farm house at Rush Court, in the liberty of Clapcot. WARFIELD. There is a somewhat irregularly shaped rectangular moat near Hayley Green Farm, with very sloping banks. There are also the remains of a square or rectangular moat to the south-east of Winkfield lane, south-west of its junction with Bishop's lane. OLD WINDSOR. Tile-place Farm stands within a quadrilateral moat, with unequal but fairly straight sides. 2 NEW WINDSOR. There are vestiges of a moat at Spital. WYTHAM. Lysons speaks of a moat surrounding Wytham house.* YATTENDON. There are traces of three sides of the moat which surrounded the castle at Yattendon, and part of one side is in a fair state of preservation. UNCLASSIFIED EARTHWORKS [CLASS X] There are not many camps which do not come under one or other of the former headings, but some few are here described which seem to a certain extent exceptional. Of those at Abingdon, Childrey and Hinton Waldrist little or nothing now remains, and Donnington shows nothing that can be considered with certainty older than the seventeenth century. Hardwell is, however, different. Here is an important and well-preserved camp, of a form and on a site differing much from any other earthwork in the county. ABINGDON. There seems to have been formerly two camps here, though no vestiges of them have been noticed in recent years. Leland Cough's Camden, i. 230. Robertson's Topograph. Survey of the Great Road, etc. (1792), i. 129. Brayley and Britton, Beauties, etc. (1801), i. 175. Trans. Newbury Dist. Field Club, ii. 107. 1 Lysons, Mag. Brit. i. 414. * Mag. Brit. i. 212-3. 271