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| Continued | upon an artificial mound, the Chief | |||||
| elevation from the natural level being | ||||||
| effected by arches of stone and vaults | ||||||
| which in ancient times were used as | ||||||
| prisons, the tower was defended by | ||||||
| an outward wall; which ran parallel | ||||||
| with it at the distance of about 10 feet. | ||||||
| There is a very narrow prospect from | ||||||
| this eminence th vale is so shut in | ||||||
| on every side. What other erections | ||||||
| were within the wall of this fortress | ||||||
| cannot be traced the ruins are so | ||||||
| confused and most of them covered | ||||||
| with grass. However there is some | ||||||
| reason for beliveing that the South West | ||||||
| part of the Castle-yard had been occupied | ||||||
| by a chapel, it was certainly a | ||||||
| place of Sepulture in very remote times | ||||||
| for, on digging here quantities of human | ||||||
| bones have been found deposited in | ||||||
| rude coffins formed of loose flag stones. | ||||||
| Keep | Keep | Mr Latty | With Mitford | The portion of Mitford Castle which was | ||
| Keep | Mr Price | Castle | strongest & used for keeping the prisoners | |||
| Keep | Hodgsons Hist. of Co | in, it is still in pretty good preservation | ||||
| Hodgson in his History gives a pictorial | ||||||
| illustration of this portion of the [castle] | ||||||
| John Davison Sapper Royal Engineers |
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Transcribed by PF and PT
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