274 EEPORT — 1882. 



in full face and profile, taken at his expense, of a native of Mont- 

 gomeryshire. Other photographs have beea received in illustration of 

 Types B and C. 



The Committee ask for a renewal of the grant of 101., with an 

 addition sufficient to procure the requisite negatives, and also photo- 

 graphs from different counties to illustrate crossing. 



Preliminary Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. K. INIeldola, 

 Greneral Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. W. Cole, appointed to investi- 

 gate the Ancient Earthiuork in Epping Forest, hnotvn as the 

 Loughton Camp. 



The earthwork known as the Loughton Camp (first identified by Mi'. 

 B. H. Cowper in 1872) is situated on an elevated plateau in Epping 

 Forest, about a mile N.W. of the village of Loughton. There is another 

 well-preserved earthwork in the Forest, known as Ambresbury Banks, 

 lying about 2^ miles due north of the present camp, and investigations 

 undertaken last year by the Essex Field Club showed that the Ambresbury 

 Banks entrenchment was of British or Romano-British construction (see 

 ' Brit. Ass. Report,' 1881, p. 697). In order to carry out the systematic 

 investigations of these two camps, which had not been cut into before 

 the examination made last year, it was resolved to commence upon the 

 Loughton Camp as early as possible this year, and an appeal was made 

 to the Essex Field Club, of which the present Committee are all members, 

 in order to raise the necessary funds. Permission having been granted 

 by the Epping Forest Committee of the Corporation of London, the work 

 was commenced on May 29, and was continued until June 13. The mode 

 of working was similar to that employed at Ambresbury Banks,' and 

 consisted in cutting sections through the rampart and ditch in order to 

 expose the old surface line. With a view to facilitate the carrying on of 

 the necessarily tedious work of watching the removal of the earth, a sub- 

 Committee of the Essex Field Club was appointed to co-operate with the 

 present Committee, and one or more members of the joint-Committee 

 were present on every working day to watch the proceedings. Each 

 spadeful of earth was sifted on its removal, and carefully examined for 

 relics, the position of each object being entered as it was found on a 

 working section prepared by Mr. W. D'Oyley, the honorary Surveyor to 

 the Club. The first section was 12 feet in width, and its cutting involved 

 the removal of 150 cubic yards of earth. But few objects were found in 

 this cutting. On the old surface, nearly under the centre of the rampart, 

 two or three fragments of pottery, several flint ' flakes,' and pieces of char- 

 coal were turned up. The pottery is extremely rude, and consists of badly 

 burnt rough clay, containing quartz grains, and showing no traces of lathe 

 turning. The great amount of denudation which this earthwork has 

 experienced, owing to its exposed situation and the light character of the 

 soil, has caused the complete silting up of the ditch in most parts, and it 

 was found in this first section that the silting was so very similar in ap- 



* Transactions Essem Field Club, ii. p. 55. 



