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Mr. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., was re-elected Hon. Secretary, and the 

 thanks of the Meeting expressed to him for his services in the past 

 two years. 



EARTHWORKS COMMITTEE. 



Mr. I. Chalkley Gould presented the Report of the Committee 

 appointed to prepare a Scheme for Recording Earthworks. 



Prof. Windle, F.R.S., F.S.A., in further explaining the Report, 

 suggested that the Committee might well be strengthened and 

 especially by the addition of military members. He deprecated any 

 attempt to attribute age independently of excavation, and drew atten- 

 tion to the number of moated enclosures in Warwickshire obviously of 

 mediaeval date, especially in the Forest of Arden ; these, he thought, 

 it would be well to include. 



Mr. R. Garraway Rice, F.S.A., suggested that Lt.-Col. Attree, 

 R.E., F.S.A., would be a useful Member of the Committee, as he had 

 promised assistance in scheduling the camps of Sussex. He pointed 

 out the dangers that sometimes arose to the walls of camps from the 

 action of rabbits, and approved the inclusion of moated sites in the 

 Schedules. 



The Rev. E. H. Goddard pointed out that camps in Wilts had 

 been greatly damaged to provide exercise grounds for racehorses ; 

 Mr. A. R. Goddard instanced Ravensbury Castle, in Bedfordshire, as 

 having been much injured by the plantation of young larches ; Mr. 

 C. J. Williams thought that the planting of trees sometimes tended to 

 preserve the camps, and other members thought it doubtful if advantage 

 or disadvantage predominated. 



Mr. Gould suggested that Lt.-Col. Ruck, R.E., who had been 

 working on the Wall of Antoninus, should be invited to join the 

 Committee. 



Sir John Evans alluded to the great loss Archaeology had sustained 

 by the loss of General Pitt-Rivers, and the fact that no other Inspector 

 of Ancient Monuments had been appointed ; he stated that moated 

 enclosures should certainly be recorded, as they were often of far 

 earlier date than the houses that were found in them. He also 

 suggested that the County Societies should be invited to send copies 

 to the central Committee of any Schedules they may form, and this 

 was agreed to. 



The Hon. Secretary recommended that copies of the Scheme 

 should be supplied to Societies for issue to all their members, and on 

 the motion of Mr. Willis-Bund, seconded by Mr. T. Blashill, and 

 supported by Mr. Freer, this was agreed to. 



Mr. Gould, as representing the Earthworks Committee, was author- 

 ised to invite Lt.-Cols. Attree and Ruck and such other Members as 

 the Sub-Committee should think fit, to join it and form a Standing 

 Committee to take charge of the subject. 



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