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telligence in the somewhat tedious and delicate task set
before them.
The positions of the cuttings are shown on the plan of the
camp (Plate III.). The first was 12 feet in width, and it was
carried from the foot of the silting of the interior slope on
for 80 feet through the rampart and ditch to the counter-
scarp. The camp at this part has suffered severely from
denudation, owing to the light nature of the soil. As will be
seen by an inspection of the plan of the cutting, the present
height of the rampart is only about 5 feet 6 inches above the
"old surface line," and the ditch is filled up with silt to the
depth of about 6 feet. In this first section the silt was so
similar in appearance to the undisturbed earth that the out-
line of the fosse could not be followed out with any certainty,
and even the escarp was very difficult to trace.
The following is a catalogue of the objects found in the
first cutting, the position of each being carefully indicated by
a number on the plan of the section (Plate IV., fig. 1). The
horizontal measurements were taken from a post driven into
the ground at the point where the silting of the interior
slope seemed to end,8 and the vertical positions from the
present surface of the rampart; everything being, of course,
projected on one vertical plane :—
No. 1. A small black characteristic flint flake, with good
"bulb of percussion" and three "facets." Found beneath
the silt at the foot of interior slope, with charcoal and burnt
stones, a considerable quantity of which was turned up by
the spades from the "old surface line" spit for about 20 feet
from the commencement of the cutting. Near a deposit of
charcoal three flint flakes (No. 2), and two "cores" from
which flakes had been struck were found.9
8 [This point is indicated on the sections by the letters "B.M."
(= Bench-mark), and the heights of the various spots above sea-level are
given in feet both in the plan and sections. Levels were carried by Mr.
D'Oyley from the Ordnance Bench-marks in the Epping New Road across
the valley into the camp, and so down into Debden Slade.—Ed.]
9 [For an explanation of the distinctive characters of artificial flint
flakes, and the method employed by their makers in producing them, see
Mr. Worthington Smith's paper, ante, pp. 136-138.—Ed.]