[107] “Lincoln Castle, as regards its earthworks, belongs to that type of English fortress in which the mound has its proper ditch, and is placed on one side of an appended area, also with its bank and ditch.... In general, these fortresses are much alike, and all belong to that class of burhs known to have been thrown up by the English in the ninth and tenth centuries” (Clark’s ‘Mediæval Military Architecture,’ ii. 192).
[108] 9th July, 1898.
[109] Mediæval Military Architecture, i. 24, 25.
[110] Athenæum, July, 1898.
[111] History of the Art of War, p. 525. The italics are mine.
[112] Athenæum, 30th July, 1898.
[113] Ibid., 6th August, 1898.
[114] Ibid., 13th August, 1898.
[115] The acting editor of the ‘Athenæum’ refused to insert my final reply explaining this.
[116] Appendix to ‘Ypodigma Neustriæ,’ p. 518.