REPORT OF THE EARTHWORKS 

 COMMITTEE. 



The Committee regret that their Eeport this 

 year includes more cases than usual of damage, or 

 destruction, actual or threatened. The causes are 

 various, but attention has again been called to the 

 increasing number of cases in which it is due to the 

 use of the land on which earthworks are situated as 

 golf links. A letter appealing to committees of golf 

 clubs to prevent injury to ancient earthworks on courses 

 under their charge has been sent to various papers that 

 deal with golfing matters. The Committee also beg 

 archaeologists who are votaries of golf to use their 

 influence in the same direction. Damage from this 

 cause is the more to be deplored, as it is generally 

 avoidable and threatens monuments on uncultivated 

 land, which have hitherto been comparatively safe. 



It will be observed on the other hand that the 

 reports received testify to increasing interest in earth- 

 works. The appointment of Koyal Commissions on 

 Ancient and Historical Monuments in England and in 

 Wales has called attention to the value of trustworthy 

 records of such remains, and work under this head is 

 reported from Cumberland and Westmorland, Dorset, 

 Hampshire, Somerset and Surrey. 



The proposed application of the Ancient Monuments 

 Protection Acts by the County Council of Hertfordshire 



