[97] See Feudal England, pp. 354–8, 392.
[98] Die Schlacht von Hastings (Berlin), 1896.
[99] Athenæum, July 30, 1898.
[100] Mr. Oman, for instance, writes of the English “ditch and the mound made of the earth cast up from it and crowned by the breastworks” (p. 154), although Mr. Freeman treated “the English fosse” as quite distinct from “the palisades, and at a distance from them” (‘English Historical Review,’ ix. 213). Mr. Archer has had to admit this.
[101] This is also the conclusion of Sir J. Ramsay.
[102] Feudal England, p. 361.
[103] Feudal England, pp. 354–358, 363, 367–8.
[104] Ibid. p. 358.
[105] Ibid. pp. 356–358.
[106] For further details on this subject, and a bibliography of the whole controversy, see ‘Sussex Archæological Collections,’ vol. xlii.