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A HISTORY OF SUSSEX LiTTLEHAMPTON. — Moat at Bailiffs Court (only two sides remaining). Moat to the north-west of Atherton. Newtimber. — Moat at Newtimber Place. Pagham. — Remains of moat to the south-east of the church. Plumpton. — Moat at Plumpton Place. RusPER. — Moat in Moat Copse. Rye.— Site of Moat. Salehurst. — Moat (?) at Moat Farm. Shermanbury. — Oval moat at Ewhurst Farm. Slaugham. — Moat at Slaugham Place. TwiNEHAM. — Moat at Moat Barn. Upper Seeding. — Moat (two sides remaining) at Manor House. Waldron. — Regular circular moat in Middle Wood. Warbleton. — Moat close to the church. Wartling. — Moat enclosing supposed site of house, to the east of Kentland Fleet. West Grinstead. — Moat to the south-west of West Grinstead Park. Moat at Clothall's Farm. Moat at Moat Farm. West Hoathly. — Moat at Moat Farm. West Wittering. — Moat at Redlands Farm. WisBOROUGH Green. — Moat at Drungewich Manor House. Withyham. — Moat at Blackham Court. Wivelsfield. — Moat at Moat House. Worth. — Moat at Barn Wood. UNCLASSIFIED EARTHWORKS [Class X] The following are brief particulars of other earthworks, which were probably of a defensive character originally : — BuxTED. — At Shepherd's Hill is a work somewhat similar in char- acter to that at Boreham Bridge, Wartling, but less symmetrical in form owing to its position on the slope of a hill. Mr. Charles Dawson, F.S.A., who has kindly furnished some particulars of it, states that the fosse on the higher side is about twenty feet deep, that on the lower ground being only six feet. Falmer. — Mr. Herbert S. Toms has drawn the writer's attention to a curious work situated near Newmarket Plantation, Falmer. It is of singular construction, being a series of low banks with shallow fosse surrounding a Y-shaped valley, and enclosing a space about 500 feet long, and 460 feet broad. The question as to its ancient or modern date must await investigation. Heathfield. — This little camp, which lies quite away from the South Downs, is of oval form. Its greatest diameter, from north-east to south-west, is 140 ft., and its shortest diameter is 102 ft. Unfortu- nately very little of the earthwork now remains, the rampart having been purposely destroyed some years since by a former owner. It had a single rampart within a fosse. The camp is not marked in the ordnance survey map (25 inches), but has been briefly described by Mr. John Lewis, F.S.A.' • Pro. Geologists' Assoc, xvii. 174 (22 July 1901). 478