[135] There are no remains of earthworks in Thanet or Sheppey, except a place called Cheeseman's Camp, near Minster in Thanet, which the late Mr Gould regarded as of the "homestead-moat type." _V. C. H. Kent_, i., 433. Nor are there any earthworks on Mersey Island mentioned by Mr Gould in his paper on Essex earthworks in the _V. C. H._ [136] Stukeley, who saw this earthwork when it was in a much more perfect state, says that it contained 30 acres. See Mr Hope's paper in _Camb. Antiq. Soc._, vol. xi. [137] Blomefield's _Norfolk_, ii., pp. 7, 8, 27. His description is very confused. [138] See Erlingssen's _Ruins of the Saga Time, Viking Club_, p. 337. [139] Richerii, _Historiarum Libri Quatuor_, edition Guadet, p. 67. [140] "In modo castri, munientes se per girum avulsæ terræ aggere." _Dudo_, 155 (edition Duchesne). [141] "The castle end of Cambridge was called the Borough within the memory of persons now living." Atkinson's _Cambridge Described_ (1897), p. 9. [142] Steenstrup says that the Northmen built themselves shipyards all round Europe, especially on the islands where they had their winter settlements. _Normannerne_, i., 354. [143] A.-S., _hyth_, a shore, a landing-place. [144] _Victoria County History of Beds._, i., 282. [145] Steenstrup's _Normannerne_, vol. iv.; _Danelag_, p. 40. [146] _A.-S. C._, 914-921. [147] Steenstrup, _Danelag_, p. 41. [148] _Ibid._, pp. 22, 23. [149] Such quartering must have been confined to the unmarried Danes, but there must have been plenty of unmarried men in the piratical host, even at the period when it became customary to bring wives and children with the army. [150] _Normannerne_, i., 282. [151] _Dudo_, 76 (Duchesne). [152] Herr Steenstrup shows that so far from the settlement of the Danes in Normandy being on feudal lines, they only reluctantly accepted the feudal yoke, and not till the next century. _Normannerne_, i., 305, 310. It is not till the 11th century that feudal castles become general in Normandy. [153] The Danes in Normandy soon made Rouen a great centre of trade. _Normannerne_, i., 190. [154] Cunningham's _Growth of English Industry_, i., 92. [155] See Vinogradoff, _English Society in the 11th Century_, pp. 5, 11, 478. [156] See Stubbs, _Constitutional History_, i., 251; Maitland's _Domesday Book and Beyond_, p. 157; Round's _Feudal England_, p. 261; Vinogradoff's _English Society in the 11th Century_, p. 41.