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Rampart: Stone wall or bank of earth surrounding a castle, fortress or fortified city.
Reeve: A high official, or chief magistrate of a district: a bailiff or steward.
Ringwork: Ringworks are medieval fortifications built and occupied from the late Anglo-Saxon period to the later 12th century. They comprised a small defended area which was surrounded by a substantial ditch and earthen bank sometimes topped by a wooden palisade. Sometimes a larger more lightly defended area, a bailey, adjoined these enclosures. Ringworks acted as strongholds for military operations and sometimes at times of danger whole villages would move inside the defences. Ringworks are rare with only 200 recorded examples nationally and only 60 with baileys. (see Whitehouse Camp, Michaelchurch Escley)