[124] “Hæsten’s Camps at Shoebury and Benfleet,” Essex Naturalist, iv., 153.
[125] The Chronicle says that the ships of Hæsten were either broken to pieces, or burnt, or taken to London or Rochester. 894.
[126] Essex Naturalist, as above, p. 151. These berms certainly suggest Roman influence.
[127] A.-S. C., 894.
[128] Montgomery Collections, xxxi., 337; Dymond, On the Site of Buttington. See also Steenstrup, Normannerne, ii., 80.
[129] Beauties of England and Wales, vii., 246. There is nothing left either at Great or Little Amwell now but fragments of what are supposed to be homestead moats. Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, pp. 95, 142, Herts. vol.
[130] Florence’s date.
[131] Victoria History of Bedfordshire, i., 282, from which this description is taken.
[132] The Chronicle speaks of Tempsford as a burh, so it must have been a large enclosure.
[133] Mr Clark actually speaks of a subsequent Norman castle at Tempsford (M. M. A., i., 78), but we have been unable to find any confirmation of this. Faint traces of larger works in the fields below were formerly visible. V. C. H. Bedfordshire.