178 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
A broken polished flint axe was found in this road by Mr.
Shearman, of Pepper's Green, and is now in the possession of
the authors.
Pepper's Green has the air of a place of antiquarian import-
ance. From it radiate other tracks, to Good Easter in the north,
and to Willingale in the south. We have been able to give it
only cursory examination, but we feel that detailed investigation
of this site will be profitable.
The foregoing notes indicate briefly the nature of the evidence
which has led to our inference. Stone by stone the track may be
traced unmistakably to Marks Tey Church (910238) where
the stone lies buried at the base of the north wall. Beyond
Marks Tey in an easterly direction a meticulous search around
Colchester, and in the parish of Langham (which has yielded most
neolithic finds) failed to produce any trace of the extension of the
track. It was quite by chance that we stumbled upon the
puddingstone at Whitestreet Green (975394), ten miles north-
north-east of Marks Tey across the Suffolk border. The line
joining Marks Tey to Whitestreet Green was examined, and
three points were discovered within a few hours, viz., at Crapes
Farm (916255), at Fordstreet (930267), and at Fordham (928282).
These three places are spaced at approximately equal intervals
over a three mile straight line from Marks Tey. At Crapes
Farm, the stone is in fragments distributed over the rockery, at
Fordstreet it is set in the pavement in the main street not far from
the Colne ford, and at Fordham it is buried and hidden in a
grass-bank beside the church. This stone was not seen, but its
existence was corroborated by three independent witnesses.
In the limited time at our disposal we were unable to follow
this line of enquiry further north-east, and propose to complete
the survey of the section to Whitestreet Green at a later date.
It was another purely fortuitous occasion which led us to
discover the conglomerate block by the roadside at Semer
(002467) in Suffolk, while returning by road from Lavenham to
Hadleigh. This stone probably marked the ford—still marked
on the ordnance map—over the River Brett. When plotted on
the map, the Semer stone is on the same straight line north-
north-east from Marks Tey through Whitestreet Green, and is
about five miles distant from the latter. As a further check we
decided to make a detour on our line southwards to the next
place marked on the map. This was Drakestone Green, and in
the farm orchard we found a large block of the local conglomerate
(Plate 12). We also learned that beneath the surface of the
orchard soil the farmer had often struck what appeared to be a
path of flints, running in a direction coincident with our track.
Again we have been unable through lack of time to complete