12 CLASS C. Rectangular or other simple enclosures, including forts and towns of the Romano-British period, In some cases, as at Silchester and Porchester, the earthen defences have been strengthened by the addition of a wall and towers of masonry. 14. CLASS D. Forts consisting only of a mount with encircling ditch or fosse, e.g.-Bures Mount, Essex.* The Mount, Caerleon. Clifford's Hill, Northamptonshire.* * See plans on following page. In some cases, forts, apparently of this class, may be incomplete examples of Class E, which once possessed, but have lost the attached courts or baileys. CLASS E Fortified mounts, either artificial or partly natural, with traces e.g.-Hallaton, Leicestershire.* Laughton, Yorkshire. Berkhampstead, Herts. Dingestow, Monmouthshire.* Hedingham, Essex.* Corfe, Dorsetshire. *See plans on following pages. In some cases, earthworks have, in later times, been obscured, or strengthened by the substitution of masonry and buildings for the original timber defences, as at Windsor, Carisbrooke, Arundel, Berkhampstead, Norwich, Castle Acre, Corfe, &c. 1 |