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of the base of a rudely-made vessel, in quality not distinguish¬ 
able from Nos. 27-32. Near old surface, about 2 feet from 
surface of rampart. A small flint flake was found with it, and 
another (No. 37) further up the cutting, both unweathered. 
The number of flint flakes in the rampart of this camp was 
somewhat large in proportion to the amount of material 
excavated. Many flakes of a ruder class than those above 
mentioned, artificial splinters of flint, and rude “cores,” 
were not considered of sufficiently well-marked character to 
be retained and catalogued. 
Fig. 1.—Conjoined flakes from Loughton Camp. 
The flakes are all as sharp as on the day they were struck 
off, only one showing signs of use (No. 8 b); they all have 
the “cone or bulb of percussion,” are lustrous, and the 
flints from which they were made apparently belonged to the 
local gravel deposits. Several exhibit small ferruginous 
concretions upon them. 
The discovery of a large number of flakes, and a quantity 
of burnt wood and burnt stones in one position in the second 
cutting (vide Nos. 16-18) seems to point (as was first sug¬ 
gested by Mr. H. A. Cole, who was watching the excavations 
at the time) to the former presence of a camp fire at that 
spot, around which the men of the camp sat and chipped out 
their weapons and tools of stone from the rough flints found 
in the Forest. This idea was confirmed by the fact that 
