In presenting this Report, the Committee again urges the Secretaries 

 of Local Archaeological Societies to obtain schedules of the ancient 

 earthworks and defensive enclosures in their respective districts, and to 

 publish them in their Transactions, or as a separate pamphlet, hoping by 

 these means to increase public interest in these priceless relics of our 

 country's story. It is suggested that reprints of such schedules, 

 accompanied, so far as possible, by accurate plans and sections of 

 works of each class, should be distributed not only to landowners 

 and occupiers but also amongst the County, Borough, Rural, Urban 

 and District Councils, which now so largely control the affairs of the 

 country, and whose members may be able to use influence to prevent 

 the destruction or mutilation which from time to time threatens the 

 remains of so many early fortresses, camps, and strongholds throughout 

 the land. 



England is far behind many other civilized countries in the scope of 

 its legislative protection of ancient monuments, but some movement in 

 the desired direction is provided by the Ancient Monuments Protection 

 Act of 1900, which empowers County Councils to purchase by 

 agreement, or to contribute towards the cost of maintaining, any such 

 records of earth or stone. 



That further protective legislation is eminently desirable will be 

 admitted by all who estimate the ever-increasing value of these object- 

 lessons, left for the benefit and instruction of posterity. 



Whilst regretting that more archaeological societies have not already 

 taken the desired work in hand, the Committee recognizes the difficulties, 

 chiefly financial, which are serious obstacles to the undertaking, but 

 hopes that the importance of the object in view may secure willing 

 workers. 



In the schedules and plans, appealing to a wide public, no great 

 amount of detail can be expected, but the Committee takes this 

 opportunity of pressing upon those contributing plans of earthworks, 

 &c., to archaeological societies to adopt an exact method of delineation 

 of the features, with information as to the levels and other details, not 

 onlv of the artificial work but of the immediately surrounding land. 



