The Mail Online has a report about the way recent floods have indicated the impressive earthworks of the Parliamentary fort built in 1643 at Earith in the south-eastern corner of Huntingdonshire.
The illustrated article can be read at Heavy rain from Storm Henk reveals outline of English Civil War fort
Such survivals are relatively rare. The best known is probably the Queen’s Sconce at Newark, created to defend the Royalist garrison and described by Wikipedia at Sconce and Devon Park
Oxford has plans of the complex fortifications added to defend the King’s acting capital and some remains of the earthworks in the University Parks. In the case of my home town of Pontefract there are siege plans of the castle surrounded by the beseigers’ forts and linking ditches and the plan of one fort has been picked up by aerial photography.
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