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Greenwood's (1824) : 4, 5, 6, 13, 14, 18, 21 (marked but not
named), 22, 27, 28 (marked but not named).
An Early Proof Ordnance (early in 19th century) : 4, 5, 6, 13,
14, 16, 18, 22, 27 ; 4, 16, and 27, being marked but not
named.
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1861. British Birds' Eggs and Nests, p. 143. Rev. J. C. Atkinson.
1868. Decoy Ponds. "P." The Field, vol. xxxi, pp. 121-2.
1878. Some Notes on Decoys, Past and Present. J. Cordeaux. The Field,
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1879. An Ancient Decoy. J. E. Harting. The Field., vol. liv, p. 38.
1886. The Book of Duck Decoys. Sir R. Payne-Gallwey.
188S. Wild-fowl Decoys in Essex. J. E. Harting, the Essex Naturalist,
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1889. White-fronted Goose fairly decoyed at Tillingham E. A. Fitch, op. cit,
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(Concluded).
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF MEETINGS
VISIT TO LATTON PRIORY (835th Meeting).
SATURDAY, 22ND MAY, 1943.
A party of 31 Members, under the leadership of the Rev. John L. Fisher, M.A.,
R.D., assembled at a point on the Harlow Road nearest to Latton Priory at
11.30 o'clock, and at once struck out across country in its direction.
A visit was first paid to an apparently unrecorded Tumulus, over 60 feet in
diameter, situated some 400 yards N.E. by N. of the Priory at a spot marked
on the ordnance maps as being 351 feet O.D. This round barrow, now over-
grown with large oaks and hawthorns, may be one of those incidentally mentioned,
but not described, by the late Chalkley Gould in his article on "Ancient Earth-
works" in the Victoria History of Essex, p. 307 : it has apparently never been
opened.
Arrived at Latton Priory, the still-existing fragment of the Priory Church,
comprising the crossing with portions of the nave and transepts, of early 14th
century date, now used as a barn, was described by Mr. Fisher ; he called atten-
tion to the architectural features, which included a 6-cusped circular clerestory
light in the N. wall of the Nave, traces of the circular night-stair from the former
dortoir to the church at the S.W. angle of the crossing, the angle-buttress built