W 2; /|i 5 A HISTORY OF ESSEX The mound with its surrounding moat is only about 1 50 feet in diameter, and the moat has been lessened in depth by centuries of accumulation of leaves and decayed vegetation. Along the inner edge of the moat runs a bank, as at Berden, giving a saucer-like form to the top of the mound. Tw = =i /=5 E. FELSTEAD. There is a small mound %^/jijf^^ at Bannister Green known as the Quakers' Mount. Mr. J. French writes 1 : 'It is from 15 to 20 feet high and some- what oval, with a flat top, being about 20 paces long at the top and 18 broad. Its sides incline at an angle of 45, and it was formerly surrounded by a moat Mound in Castle Grove * J about o or 10 feet broad. Not quite half of this moat still exists, the rest having been filled in in great part by earth removed from one end of the mound. The original symmetry can be well made out in spite of this mutilation.' HEDINGHAM (CASTLE). The noble twelfth century tower of Hedingham Castle has been the subject of artists' pencils and antiquaries' ELMDON ESSEX. tee' 900' too' AMttStipS**^^ wi'A^V^xf* w %/mvr ^"^iP ^mfa?;,,.^ ^Pf ...r,^'-,.,Wp -^^ , ""'"%, te- v--c ^m WM goo' 300 Mecf/ny/tam Cersf/e, Sssex. pens, but the great fosse and ramparts have seldom, if ever, been depicted or described. That they were here long before the stone keep is probable, but how long before we may not assert. 1 Essex Naturalist, vi. loo. 294
