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Field Club that it had been a very great pleasure to the members of the 

 Museum to welcome them in that town. [Applause.] 



Mr. Chancellor said he was exceedingly obliged to them for the kind 

 vote of thanks they had passed to him. All he could say was that it had 

 been to him a labour of love, and it had been a great pleasure to him to 

 meet the gentlemen belonging to a Club which was considered, perhaps, to 

 trench somewhat on the manor of the Essex Ai-chasological Society. He 

 had been on the Council of the Archaeological Society since it started, and 

 he could only say he was very pleased to welcome fresh labourers. Essex 

 had been somewhat barren of archaeologists. He did not care whether 

 they came from inside or outside their Archaeological Society, and he was 

 pleased at all times to forward their views, and to explain, as far as his 

 information would allow him, anything that came in his way. [Applause.] 



The meeting then resolved itself into the Eighteenth Ordinary Meeting 

 of the Club, the President taking the Chair. 



The following were elected members : — W. Wakeling Boreham, J.P., 

 F.R.A.S., Edward Bro^^^l, Rev. L. Cockerell, M.A., Edmund Durrant, 

 (Hon. Sec. Essex and Chelmsford Museum), Frank L. Emanuel, F. H. 

 Forward, G. W. Gould, G. T. Jones, M.D., &c., G. Alan Lowndes, J.P., 

 D.L., &c., D. H. Neale, Henry Spicer, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Mrs. S. 

 Warburg. 



The President read the " Report on the Excavation of the Earthwork 

 known as Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest," which had been drawn up 

 by General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S. [Transactions, ii. 55.] 



The plans and sections of the camp (enlarged for the occasion by Mr. H. 

 A. Cole), and photographs of the works by Mr. J. Spiller were exhibited, as 

 was also the coloured plate of some of the objects found, which the author 

 proposed to publish in the ' Transactions ' at his own expense. 



The Rev. W. Linton Wilson, as a member of the Committee of 

 Exploration, proposed that a very hearty vote of thanks should be 

 passed to General Pitt-Rivers for the excellent report he had prepared 

 and for his liberal donation of the coloured plate to illustrate the same. 

 The plate would cost about £12, and was therefore a very handsome 

 present to the Club. 



Mr. Henry Walker warmly seconded the proposal. They had very 

 successfully arrived at the conclusion that the Camp was British, — 

 either ante-Roman or post-Roman, — but after all it occurred to him 

 they had not invalidated the tradition that the work was associated 

 with the British Queen Bodug, whom all had read of under the Latinised 

 name of Boadicea. 



The vote of thanks was passed by acclamation. 



The President hoped that the Club would not allow the work so well 

 begun to drop. The county of Essex appeared to be particularly rich 

 in these early earthworks. He considered that they could investigate 

 these without in any way trenching upon the jDrovince of their colleagues 

 the Essex Arishgeological Society, inasmuch as in them they were 



