In presenting its Annual Report the Committee wishes to point out 

 that on the present occasion it has interpreted the terms of its 

 enquiry more strictly than has been the case in some previous 

 years. Originally appointed for recording Ancient Defensive Earth- 

 works and Fortified Enclosures, the Committee has found it 

 convenient, with the consent of the Congress, to include tumuli 

 and other earthworks of a non-defensive character. But of late 

 years the Report has been allowed to go beyond this and to 

 include notices of a number of explorations which cannot by 

 any interpretation of its terms of reference be said to come 

 within the scope of the Committee's enquiry; and when it is 

 borne in mind that such notices are omitted in the present instance, 

 the Committee considers that the following Report, restricted as 

 closely as possible to Earthworks pure and simple, may be 

 taken as indicating a constantly growing interest in this branch of 

 archaeology. 



The Committee has great pleasure in announcing that' it has 

 received from Dr. J. P. Williams-Freeman of the Hampshire 

 Field Club, a complete schedule, accompanied by 70 plans, of 

 the earthworks of Hampshire. These will be preserved, with 

 the other papers presented to the Committee (including the 

 original drawings of all plans of earthworks that have appeared in 

 the Victoria County Histories), at the Society of Antiquaries' Rooms. 

 Dr. Williams-Freeman's schedule is the more valuable since it is 

 understood that the Victoria History of Hampshire will not include 

 a section on earthworks. The Committee may be allowed once more 

 to express the hope that this example may be more largely followed 

 in the counties which have not yet been dealt with by the Victoria 

 County History. 



