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oval form of pre-Roman works. The trenches showed a
similar fosse to that of Ambresbury. Two qualities of
hand-made pottery (a coarser and a finer) were found.
There were more worked flints than at Ambresbury. Some
of the flint flakes appeared as if grouped round the debris
of charcoal, representing the fires of the makers of the
camp, buried within the vallum of the camp. There was
also a chipped flint adze of triangular section, and about
5 inches long. All the evidence was in harmony with the
supposition of a pre-Roman date. 213
Uphall Camp (W. Crouch, E.N., vik, 1893, pp. 131-138, map
and 2 figs.). It is situated immediately beside the Roding.
There is a mound 28 feet high on one of the ramparts. Much
of it is obscure, but it seems to be of British, rather than
Roman, form. No remains from it are known. {E.N.,
x., 1897, p. 143 ; p. 176 ; x., 1898, pp. 374-375). The site
was being sold for building [336]. , 214
Ware (Herts) (Proc., iv., 1883, p. xxv.). Trenches and earth-
works on Garrison Field, Widbury Hill. Worked flints in
neighbouring fields. 215
Harlow (E.N., vi., 1892, p. 77; quotation). A supposed
Roman camp. There are no banks, but foundations of
buildings have been found. Coins are also found, but
British coins seem to be more abundant than Roman.
(T. V. Holmes, E.N., ix., 1895, pp. 59-65, map). The railway
a little W. of Harlow station crosses part of the site, which
is a natural hillock formerly surrounded by a loop of the
Stort—argues against it being an occupied site. (I. Chalkley
Gould, E.N., ix., 1895, pp. 65-70). Replies in favour of
the contention. 216
Wallbury (E.N., ii., 1888, pp. 225-227) between Bishop
Stortford and Sawbridgworth ; well-preserved with a double
ditch and circumference of 3/4 mile, enclosing some 30 acres.
No Roman remains have been found, and it is probably
British. 217
Battle, or Repell, Ditches, Saffron Walden (Proc., iv., 1884,
p. lxxxv.). 218
The Lynchetts (E.N., xvii., 1913, pp. 218-219). Terraces of
cultivation on the slopes of a dry chalk valley near Ickleton,
Cambridgeshire. The term "lynchett" properly refers
to the strip of grass slope separating the terraces. Many
Neolithic flakes, etc., occur on the field at the top of these
terraces. There is a tumulus on the opposite hill. 219
Pleshey, visit to (E.N., xiii., 1903, p. 32 ; map). 220
Great Canfield (near Dunmow) and Stansted Mountfitchet
(T. V. Holmes, E.N., x., 1897, pp 151-157). These