44 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
On the present scanty pottery finds alone a close dating within this wide
bracket is not possible. Nevertheless, a study of material from analogous
sites, combined with the known type of structure and the growing knowledge
of the successive events which occured in the Early Iron Age in the Lower
Thames Valley region, should provide a setting into which Ambresbury Banks
will fall into place. It is hoped that in the definitive report in preparation it
will be possible to suggest when and why earthworks like Ambresbury Banks
and its neighbouring camp at Loughton were constructed.
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PITT-RIVERS, A. 1881. Report on the Excavation of the Earthwork known
as Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest. Trans. Epping Forest and County
of Essex Naturalists' Field Club, II, 55 - 68.
WARREN, S. H. (unpublished) (See Essex Naturalist XXV, 281).