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within the castle is described to have been successively let to different tenants, one of whom ploughed it up and sowed it with hemp, and another with corn . The interior for more than a century past had been occupied as pasturage for sheep, the ruins of the few buildings which remained were covered with mould and grass, rising in the form of hills in various parts , and the walls only displayed a quantity of misshapen fragments, which , to use the language of Grove, who surveyed them 70 years ago, " appeared to have been plain , and without towers or any other means of defence." The excavation of the castle which took place 6 years ago by order of the late Lord Chichester, is will known. It began from the accidental discovery of somestone steps which belonged to the circular tower in the north wall, and has been the means of bringing to view a variety of interesting remains, none of which were supposed to exist. Among them is the College Church 110 feet long, the chapter house, deanery and prebendal houses ; part of the flooring of the keep ; the whole of the castle mount ; the entire line of east wall, with a seini-circular tower and towered gateway ; the