Clark, George Thomas, 1809-1898 · London, Wyman & sons · leaf 288
gentle, falling off for a furlong or so. To thewest, where there is a valley now occupied by the railway, theground is low, and here the outer side of the ditch, forming thecrest of the counterscarp, is a narrow ridge, as at Arques, succeededby a very steep slope. Thus those who approached the… … The Castle of Brambei% Sussex. 269 ditch crosses instead of skirting the hill, and is much less deep.Here was the entrance, and upon the small tail of the knoll thuscut off is placed the parish church, standing, therefore, just outsidethe ditch, and in its turn defended by the slope of the hill,…
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