It had been cut through with bolt croppers.

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On the high point of the first, Edburton Hill, are the earthworks of a motte-and-bailey castle, which in spring and early summer are a knee-high wildflower meadow: agrimony, wild mignonette, red clover, yellow rattle, marjoram, scabious, knapweed and the odd tall bolt of fireweed, through all of which wander string-like stems of bindweed.

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The fact that no-one got into the building itself is reflective of the police being there when that group managed to use bolt cutters to cut their way through the gate.

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