A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK IcKXiNGHAM (xxi, 1 5 and 16). — The ancient road known as the Icknield Way crossed Icklingham Heath ; here the flint relics, the indications of a camp, and the presence of tumuli point to an early occupation of this spot. Many banks and ditches intersecting the ground have suggested it as the defences of a prehistoric village ; but the earthworks rather have the appear- ance of mediaeval land boundaries. The Warbanks, Lawshall Langham (xxxiv, 12). — 'Castle Ditches' is the name given to a field east of the church and north of a moated area, which local tradition asserts to be the site of a village, but all traces of earthworks have been obliterated during the last fifty years. Lawshall (Ixiii, 4). — 'The Warbanks,' also extending into the adjacent parishes of Cockfield and Shimpling. These entrenchments are now in three distinct parts, but they doubtless formed part of one extensive defence. The most northerly portion, north-east of the Greyhound Inn and on the eastern side of the high road between Sudbury and Bury St. Edmunds, 624
