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A HISTORY OF RUTLAND The flat summit of the mount is 78 ft. in diameter, the escarpment, 9 ft. perpendicular measurement, is acute, and descends into a fosse 1 2 ft. wide with a counterscarp of 4 ft. It is said to be the spot on which the Parliamentarian guns were planted for the destruction of the Old Hall at North LufFenham. MOUNTS WITH ONE OR MORE ATTACHED "COURTS (Class E) Beaumont Chase (xiii, 5). — 'Castle Hill' is situated on the borders of this parish adjoining that of Uppingham, i mile north-west from Upping- ham. It is an artificial mount with a very round escarpment 38 ft. in height. The summit, nearly flat, has been 54 ft. in diameter, but that mea- surement is retained only from the north-east to the south-west, the subsidence of the soil on the west having altered its original character. A fosse surrounds the base of the mount on the northern and eastern sides — where the ground is nearly level — with an average breadth of 37 ft. '• and a counterscarp of 1 2 ft. On the south and west the decline of the ground is very steep, descending a long distance into a valley, and around this part no fosse was constructed. Certain ridges on the western side which have the appear- ance of entrenched lines are formed by landslips from the mount. On the only level ground adjacent to the mount, on its north-eastern sides, are traces of two baileys, a scarp 90 ft. distant from the mount indicating a court approaching an oblong in plan, and 140 ft. beyond this is the possible site of a vallum to another court, but the plough has almost obliterated it. A very small stream flows along the western base of the hill. The mount commands an extensive view of the country. BuRLEY (v, 11). — In a field by the roadside north-east of Burley, and 3 miles north-east of Oakham, is a mount fortress ; the summit, 16 ft. high, has a rounded top, and the base is surrounded by a fosse 3 ft. 4 in. deep and 9 ft. wide, except on the north, where it is 12 ft. broad. The mount is situated within the area of an oblong bailey, the circumvallation of which has largely gone though sufficient remains to leave no doubt as to its former plan. At the rounded north-western angle the fosse only is seen, and here it is 3 ft. deep and 8 ft. wide ; the other parts are not so clearly defined except at the south-west where a portion of the vallum remains from i ft. 9 in. to 2 ft. 4 in. in height, giving an escarpment of fully 5 ft. into the fosse, with a counter- scarp of 3 ft. A debased semicircular rampart on the eastern side indicates the former existence of a second bailey. A stream flows close to the north- east of the inclosure. SCALE or FEET 100 ZOO 200 ■ ■ ■ Castle Hill, Beaumont Chase 112