132 ANCIENT ENTRENCHMENTS AT
copy of which is in the British Museum (Egerton, 2382, f. 153).
Some twenty to twenty-five volumes were given to the Corporation
of Colchester by the Hill family, of Earls Colne, but in none of these
is there any note of the camp.
MOUND AND RAMPART AT UPHALL, SEEN FROM THE RIVER RODING.
(Drawn by H. A. Cole, July, 1893.)
Morant mentions 400 volumes of MSS. by this writer, so it is
just probable that he obtained his information from the Holman MSS.
It is certainly curious to find that the eminent Roman antiquary,
Dr. Stukeley, whose great friend, the Rev. J. Sims, was vicar of the
adjoining parish of East Ham, and who, by his own desire, was buried
there,1 does not appear, so far as his published works go, to have
1 The following note of his burial-place was given by my friend. Mr. King, at the meeting of
the Essex Arch. Soc, at East Ham, in 1859, but being accidentally omitted from their Report,
has never hitherto been published. It is copied from his own MSS. in my copy of the Trans-
actions,
" But in the churchyard lie the remains of one whose name will be held in higher veneration
by ourselves as archaeologists than any of whom I have spoken, that distinguished antiquary, the
Rev. Dr, Stukeley. He chose for the place of his interment this churchyard, selected the spot
where his body should rest, and desired that no memorial should be erected, but that the turf
should be smoothly spread over his grave. His request was complied with ; but though no
sepulchral memorial marks the spot, he has left an imperishable name, and a monument more
enduring than either stone or brass. " H, W. King, scripsit."
Note of his burial in the Register '.—
" 1765, Mar. 9, Rev. Dr. Stukeley, late Rector of St. George, Queens Square."
He was buried on the north side of the church, and some years later (1776) the Rev. Joseph
Sims was, by his own wish, buried close by the spot.