ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS AT 



copy of which is in the British Museum (Egerton, 2382, f. 153). 

 Some twenty to twenty-five volumes were given to the Corporation 

 of Colchester by the Hill family, of Earls Colne, but in none of these 

 is there any note of the camp. 









IMOUND AND RAIMI'AKT AT Ul'HAI.I., SEITN FROM THE RIVER KODINC;. 



{Dracii by H. A. Cokjidy, iSgs.) 



Morant mentions 400 volumes of MSS. by this writer, so it is 

 just probable that he obtainediiis information from the Holman MSS. 



It is certainly curious to find that the emineiit Roman antiquary. 

 Dr. Stukeley, w^hose great friend, the Rev. J. Sims, was vicar of the 

 adjoining parish of East Ham, and who, by his own desire, w\as buried 

 there,^ does not appear, so far as his published works go, to have 



I The following note of his burial-place was given by my friend, Mr. King, at the meeting of 

 the Essex Arch. Soc, at EaU Ham, in 1S5Q, but being accidentally omitted from their Report, 

 h.\s never hitherto been published. It is copied from his own MSS. in my copy of the Trans- 

 actions. 



" But in the churchyard lie the remains of one whose name will be held in higher veneration 

 by ourselves as archjeologists than any of whom I have spoken, that di-i ingu'shed antiquary, the 

 Kev. Dr. Stukeley. He chose for the place of his interment this churchyard, selected the spjt 

 where his body should rest, and desired that no memorial .should be erected, but that the turf 

 should be smoothly spread over his grave. His request was complie.l with ; but though no 

 sepulchral memorial marks the spot, he has left an imperishable name, and a monument more 

 enduring than either stone or brass. " H. W. King, scripsit." 



Note of his burial in the Register : — 



" 1765, Mar. 9, Rev. Dr. .Stukeley, late Rector of St. George, Queens Square." 



He was buried on the north side of the church, and so.me years later (1776) the Rev. Joseph 

 .Sims was, by his own wish, buried close by the spot. 



