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of the base of a rudely-made vessel, in quality not distinguish-
able from Nos. 27-32. Near old surface, about 2 feet from
surface of rampart. A small flint flake was found with it, and
another (No. 37) further up the cutting, both unweathered.
The number of flint flakes in the rampart of this camp was
somewhat large in proportion to the amount of material
excavated. Many flakes of a ruder class than those above
mentioned, artificial splinters of flint, and rude "cores,"
were not considered of sufficiently well-marked character to
be retained and catalogued.
Fig. 1.—Conjoined flakes from Loughton Camp.
The flakes are all as sharp as on the day they were struck
off, only one showing signs of use (No. 8 6); they all have
the "cone or bulb of percussion," are lustrous, and the
flints from which they were made apparently belonged to the
local gravel deposits. Several exhibit small ferruginous
concretions upon them.
The discovery of a large number of flakes, and a quantity
of burnt wood and burnt stones in one position in the second
cutting (vide Nos. 16-18) seems to point (as was first sug-
gested by Mr. H. A. Cole, who was watching the excavations
at the time) to the former presence of a camp fire at that
spot, around which the men of the camp sat and chipped out
their weapons and tools of stone from the rough flints found
in the Forest. This idea was confirmed by the fact that