6 THE EASTERN BOUNDARY STONES
the missing stones. On our first visit to the southern end of the
boundary we found an old and weather-beaten stone low down in a
ditch and let into the brick wall at the eastern end of Whalebone
House facing the Romford Road. The only letters decipherable
Fig. 4.—Havering Stone, Built into a Wall near the Whalebone House on the
Romford Road.
were SEPT, but our information was not at the time sufficiently
precise to enable us to feel certain that this was the Havering Stone
which stood at the corner of the "Beames Land Lane" of the
Perambulation. When, however, on a subsequent occasion we