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Field Club that it had been a very great pleasure to the members of the
Museum to welcome them in that town. [Applause.]
Mr. Chancellor said he was exceedingly obliged to them for the kind
vote of thanks they had passed to him. All he could say was that it had
been to him a labour of love, and it had been a great pleasure to him to
meet the gentlemen belonging to a Club which was considered, perhaps, to
trench somewhat on the manor of the Essex Archaeological Society. He
had been on the Council of the Archaeological Society since it started, and
he could only say he was very pleased to welcome fresh labourers. Essex
had been somewhat barren of archaeologists. He did not care whether
they came from inside or outside their Archaeological Society, and he was
pleased at all times to forward their views, and to explain, as far as his
information would allow him, anything that came in his way. [Applause.]
The meeting then resolved itself into the Eighteenth Ordinary Meeting
of the Club, the President taking the Chair.
The following were elected members :—W. Wakeling Boreham, J.P.,
F.R.A.S., Edward Brown, Rev. L. Cockerell, M.A., Edmund Durrant,
(Hon. Sec. Essex and Chelmsford Museum), Frank L. Emanuel, F. H.
Forward, G. W. Gould, G. T. Jones, M.D., &c, G. Alan Lowndes, J.P.,
D.L., &c, D. H. Neale, Henry Spicer, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Mrs. S.
Warburg.
The President read the "Report on the Excavation of the Earthwork
known as Ambresbury Banks, Epping Forest," which had been drawn up
by General Pitt-Rivers, F.E.S. [Transactions, ii. 55.]
The plans and sections of the camp (enlarged for the occasion by Mr. H.
A. Cole), and photographs of the works by Mr. J. Spiller were exhibited, as
was also the coloured plate of some of the objects found, which the author
proposed to publish in the ' Transactions ' at his own expense.
The Rev. W. Linton Wilson, as a member of the Committee of
Exploration, proposed that a very hearty vote of thanks should be
passed to General Pitt-Rivers for the excellent report he had prepared
and for his liberal donation of the coloured plate to illustrate the same.
The plate would cost about £12, and was therefore a very handsome
present to the Club.
Mr. Henry Walker warmly seconded the proposal. They had very
successfully arrived at the conclusion that the Camp was British,—
either ante-Roman or post-Roman,-—but after all it occurred to him
they had not invalidated the tradition that the work was associated
with the British Queen Bodug, whom all had read of under the Latinised
name of Boadicea.
The vote of thanks was passed by acclamation.
The President hoped that the Club would not allow the work so well
begun to drop. The county of Essex appeared to be particularly rich
in these early earthworks. He considered that they could investigate
these without in any way trenching upon the province of their colleagues
the Essex Archaeological Society, inasmuch as in them they were