Ancient Earthwork in Epping Forest. 
221 
Nos. 8, 5, and 6. Five small fragments of pottery of very 
irregular shape, the largest about 2 inches by 1*5 inches, and 
about 05 inch thick. They are dull red in colour, somewhat 
darker on the smoother or interior surface, and quite blackish 
in the middle of the paste, owing to imperfect firing. The 
texture is very coarse, the pottery containing angular pieces 
of quartz and coloured pebble of comparatively considerable 
size, with sand. It is decidedly hand-made, and probably of 
British manufacture. Found on or near old surface line, 
beneath the crest of the rampart, 80-35 feet from foot of 
interior slope, with abundant traces of charcoal, &c. 
No. 4. Black flint flake, not weathered, with good “ bulb ” 
and two “ facets.” Found with Nos. 3, 5, and 6. 
No. 7. “ Outside ” flint flake near old surface line, beneath 
crest of rampart. 
No. 8 ( a , b). Two good flint flakes, unweathered; the nar¬ 
rower one (b) showing distinct marks of use at both ends. 
Found beneath exterior slope of rampart, about 2\ feet down. 
Nos. 9 and 10. Flint “ core” and flake with many “facets,” 
both unweathered; found in exterior slope of rampart, about 
2 feet down. 
No. 11. Flint “core,” from which flakes have been struck ; 
found about 3| feet down in the silt accumulated in the fosse. 
The indistinctness of the outlines of the ditch, and the 
paucity of the evidence above obtained, rendered another 
cutting necessary, and a new one, 7 feet wide, was com¬ 
menced on June 8th through the vallum near the south-west 
corner of the camp. The line of junction between the made 
earth, silt, and the original surface was here more clearly 
traceable, and could be laid down with tolerable accuracy 
upon the plan, except the commencement of the escarp, con¬ 
cerning the exact angle of which some little doubt was felt. 
On clearing out the fosse, in which feet of silt had 
accumulated, its form was found to be pointed, as was the 
case at Ambresbury Banks. The soil at the bottom of the 
ditch was quite peaty, and water rose in the cutting for a 
foot or two. The rampart is now only about 6 feet above the 
old level of the earth, and its angles are so altered by severe 
