. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. eason then to consider these bricks as mediaeval,probably local. All these foundations upon this steeply sloping hillsideare so overgrown with trees and bushes that it is noteasy to sketch them with relation to the tower. Nor canone always distinguish their limit. Though circum-stances have not permitted my making a proper plan ofthese foundations, which it is hoped may be done onsome future occasion, I have made a rough sketch of thesite and of what I could perceive of their ground give an ide
. Sussex archaeological collections relating to the history and antiquities of the county. eason then to consider these bricks as mediaeval,probably local. All these foundations upon this steeply sloping hillsideare so overgrown with trees and bushes that it is noteasy to sketch them with relation to the tower. Nor canone always distinguish their limit. Though circum-stances have not permitted my making a proper plan ofthese foundations, which it is hoped may be done onsome future occasion, I have made a rough sketch of thesite and of what I could perceive of their ground give an idea of a fairly large, but straggling, setof buildings, not such a quadrangular arrangement asThorpes plan. It is adapted to the situation—a forestridge mansion overlooking a ghyll with a brook below,just such a mansion as would grow out of local conditions. There are signs of buildings once attached to the toweron the south-west side towards the barn—doubtless thenew building—and entered from the tower by thesmall west door and another opening on the first floor. 71 OLD Also there is a sign on the north-west side of a highebuilding having once joined it, running north-weslHow far it went I cannot judge, but the whole enclosurethough fairly large, seems to have been of irregulashape, as would be sucli a mansion of gradual growtl:The drain appears, so far as my observation and Iocsinformation enabled me to trace it, to be placed so as tguard the foundations from being sapped by springs. There is much water in these great forest ridge slopetoften accumulating to an extent unimaginable to thoswho do not live there. It requires to be dealt with ithis way, and this arrangement is a testimony to tbpractical ability of its inventor. The drain runs arounthe foundations and keeps them dry. It often contairmuch water, as a pump in the middle of it testifies, anthe slopes below are often damp, as is the bog belothem, next to the brook at the bottom of the ghyll—brook usu
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