ANCIENT POTTERY FOUND AT TWITTY FEE, DANBURY. 109
still called the "Decoy." Perhaps others with more opportunity
for research amongst old records will be able to throw further
light on the subject.
In conclusion, perhaps, it will be of benefit to future workers
to point out two slight inaccuracies in the placing of the numbers
representing the site of decoys on the map included in A History
of the Birds of Essex.
(D19), representing Bohun's Hall Decoy, has been placed
too far to the west, and, curiously enough, covers the area
occupied by the pond in Rolls Farm fresh marsh. The proper
site for Bohun's Hall Decoy is a quarter of a mile west of Mill
point.
(D18) (Skinner's Wick), possibly due to overcrowding
occasioned by the number of decoys in this area, is also too far
to the west, and in addition lies too far inland.
To those who are anxious to add further decoys to the
Essex list the fresh marsh near Gore Saltings seems full of
possibilities.
I wish to acknowledge my thanks to Mr. A. R. Thompson
for the trouble he has taken in obtaining photographs of these
ponds. These have all been taken from the sea wall and are
unsatisfactory subjects to portray unless taken from the air.
THE ANCIENT POTTERY FOUND AT
TWITTY FEE, DANBURY.
By M. R. HULL, M.A.
(With Four Plates and Two Text Figures.)
THE following account is necessarily composite, because
much of the pottery was found casually in digging for
gravel before the Essex Field Club began to investigate the
site. These preliminary finds have been published in a very
careful and thorough manner by Mr. G. C. Dunning in the
Antiquaries Journal, vol. xiii., p. 59 and vol. xiv., p. 187. For
the convenience of members of the Club this material is here
reproduced; I have not presumed to alter Mr. Dunning's account,
which is given practically verbatim. The quotation marks will
show Mr. Dunning's part of the work.