OF THE FOREST OF WALTHAM.
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south of Richard's Stone in the garden adjoining the house occupied
by Mr. Reynolds (Fig. 3). It had been placed by the Bourne
Brook, and had become almost buried by subsidence in the alluvium,
but Mr. Reynolds had it cleared by the time of the Club's visit on
July 28th, 1894, and some of the members found time to go over
and inspect it. Like Richard's Stone, it is oriented with its corners
directed towards the cardinal points of the compass. No trace of
any inscription could be made out on the portion of the stone ex-
posed to view. Richard's Stone also is much weathered, but at the
Fig. 3.—Navestock Boundary Stone, in the Bank of the Bourne Brook.
meeting of the Club referred to, Mr. Glenny, Vice-Chairman of the
Essex County Council, happening to catch the face of the stone in a
more favourable light than I had first seen it, managed to make out
the figure 2 and afterwards the 6 belonging to the date 1642.
Everything else has been weathered away.
Since the time of the first identification of Richard's Stone, and
in conjunction with Mr. W. Cole and his brothers, Messrs. B. G.
and H. A. Cole, I have made several perambulations of the eastern
boundary of the old Forest of Waltham with the object of finding