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the evidence along this limb of the trackway, and our last excur-
sion was made in an attempt to find the northern end. We made
the assumption that possibly this track was the lost southern
extremity of the Norfolk feature known as "Peddar's Way."
We followed Peddar's Way from the Wash to Castle Acre, but
found that the only boulders associated with it were of basalt and
grit. On the other hand we did accidentally discover five blocks
of conglomerate :
1. Under the buttress of Heacham Church (62/682380).
2. In the wall of a house at Snettisham (62/682347).
3. In the foundations of the ruins of Snettisham old church (62/691344).
4. At Grimstone (62/722222).
5. At Gayton (62/732193).
With the exception of No. 2, these points lie on a straight line,
which extended southwards, fell exactly across the site of the
Neolithic flint-mines at Grimes Graves.
The striking similarity between the Norfolk stones and those
found in Essex is strong presumptive evidence that the two tracks
are concurrent. The strongly suggestive link with Grimes
Graves leads us to the corollary that this track is probably the old
flint trading route for the East Anglian settlements. The manner
in which the track keeps to the ridges of the hill, avoiding all
towns and villages, and apparently unconnected with any recog-
nised Bronze Age sites or roads; indeed the very nature of the
markstones themselves; all these facts point circumstantially to
the same conclusion, although considerable field work remains
to be accomplished before final proof.
The western end of the track has been far more difficult to
trace. Hertfordshire is a built-up area, with a maze of new
suburbs and arterial roads, and only recently have we hit upon the
probable course.
A line of four boulders of Herts conglomerate, sighted in a
straight line from Flamstead End (345035) to Appleby Street
(330045) runs west-north-west from a site marked "Roman
Camp" on the map (352030). Eastwards the track would pass
through the suburbs of Cheshunt and across the River Lea marshes
to join the Essex track at Fishers Green.
Westwards the track has not yet been investigated, but a
number of vague clues lead to St. Albans, and it is true that at
Kingsbury Mill ford over the River Ver, at Verulam, there
are typical conglomerate blocks. Others stand in the gateway
leading to the Roman Theatre site, and another was in-
corporated in the Theatre building itself and can now be seen
among the ruins.
Very recently we have discovered conglomerate boulders
under the buttresses of Chesham Church and in Chesham