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-About the middle ef this Fence is the Pavement, diflant 
from High-Water-Mark a Furlong ; In former times it 
might have been fomewhat more, becaufe from this Point 
to the Weftward, the Sea is always gaining from the 
Land, 
More than four Years (incc, viz,, in the Summer 
1712,, when the Fence was repair’d ; the Workman fink- 
ing a Hole ro fix a Poll in, was hinder’d by fomeching 
Solid like a Rock ; but calling out the Earth clean, found 
the Obftacle to be Artificial. Mr. Thomas Willard of 
Bourne, Owner of the Meadow, being inform'd of the 
Novelty, gave Order that it Ihouid be uncover’d ; 
and lent alfo to Herflmonceux, for one Purceglove an in- 
genious Ingineer (who formerly had been imploy’d in 
the Mines in the Northern Counties^, who with his In- 
llruments bored through th^Pavemenc; and in many pla- 
ces of the Ground about it, which he found to be full of 
Foundations.* but this his Difeovery of thofe Founda- 
tions, was only a Confirmation of what the Inhabitants 
there have always obferv’d, as well in Ploughing, as in 
the Growth of their Corn and Grafs* for in the common 
Corn Field, Weft to the Meadow, to the diftance of near 
half a Mile, they often raife bits of Foundations with 
their Ploughs ; and in dry Summers, by the different 
Growth of the Corn, they can plainly perceive all that 
Tracft of Ground to be full of Foundations. 
The Pavement was little more than a Foot below the com- 
mon Surface of the Ground ; what lay next it was a fmall 
Sea Gravel 5 the Pofition of it is very near due Eaft and 
Weft fabout two Foot of the Weft end of it reaching 
into the Corn Field^ ; its length is feventeen Foot and 
four Inches; its breadth eleven Foot. At firft it Teem’d 
to have been bounded with a thin Brick Tet on Edge, 
about an Inch above the Tejfer£, To exadly ftrait and 
even, as if Shot with a Plane ; and To well Cemented, 
as 
