THE CONGLOMERATE TRACK 257
Site Map ref. Distance Remarks
Verulam ......... 134074 0 yards. Roman Theatre.
Ver Ford ......... 139075 400 ,, Standing.
19 Wellclose Street ... 142074 420 ,, In garden.
Moot House ......... 143073 440 ,, Now at Museum.
27 New Kent Road ... 148072 440 „ In garden.
51 Latimore Road ... 152071 260 „ In garden.
142 Victoria Street ... 154071 400 ,, Removed about 1945.
36 Breakspear Avenue... 158069 500 ,, Garden rockery.
Cunningham Hill Farm... 163066 700 ,, Roadside by gate.
Cell Barnes Hospital ... 175060 1,500 ,, Kitchen garden.
Tyttenhanger ...... 177060 300 „ Known in 1920.
Hill End Farm ...... 185059 800 „ Roadside.
This series has been traced and plotted with the able assistance of Mrs.
D. Sharp, of St. Albans, to whom grateful acknowledgment is made.
A few additional observations have been made in the Essex section.
It was deduced that the line of the track from Epping Upland passed
across the rise behind Pinchtimber Farm, but a continued search for
stones in this area was without success until the late summer of 1953.
During a very dry spell of weather, the level of water in the roadside
pond at Pinchtimber Farm fell to an abnormally low point, revealing a
large number of broken fragments of a considerable puddingstone boulder
which had been used to support the roadside bank.
In our original list of sites in Essex we had indicated the probable
position of the Chelmer ford at Rectory Farm, based on the slender evidence
of a single stone found there. More conclusive evidence of the ford site
has appeared since the discovery of the "pagan" stone in Broomfield
Church and the corresponding boulder at "Belsteads" on the east of the
river. The significance of these stones in church structures has been
emphasised in E.N., vol. 29, p.184.
The most outstanding discoveries of recent date have been made in
Suffolk, with the assistance of Mrs. Robertson, of Bury St. Edmunds. The
long gap between Chelsworth and Thetford is now being filled by a con-
vincing series of boulders, in a district where surface stones of any kind
are extremely scarce, and where the criticism that the track has been
drawn arbitrarily through a line of stones in an area haphazardly strewn
with them cannot apply. It may well prove that the Suffolk section holds
the most convincing proof of the validity of the track theory, for the most
careful search has shown that the six stones listed below are the only
ones yet found in the area.
Site Map ref. Remarks
Chelsworth Church ... 981479 Foot of tower.
Charity Farm ...... 954519 Stone in ditch, 400 yards east of farm
(unconfirmed).
Thence the assumed line leads north-north-west, through the parishes
of Thorpe Moneus and Felsham, towards Bury St. Edmunds. Boulders
reappear as follows: —
Site Map ref. Remarks
Hall Farm, Fornham 864672 See below.
Timworth Green Farm 858692 Against farmyard wall.
Ingham Crossroads ... 855708 Roadside.
West Farm, Barnham 861767 Corner of barn.