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and sometimes the whole of the materials above the ' floor,' is not
water-laid ; in other words, it is one form of ' trail' and ' warp '; above
this ' trail,' and where the darker tint is engraved, is humus, with
neolithic celts and flakes, &c."
Those wishing for further information on this subject should
refer to the paper quoted and to Mr. Worthington Smith's book
mentioned below.
There is a Palaeolithic implement exhibited by the Rev. A.
J. Kenworthy which is of special interest coming as it does from
Grays Inn Lane. It was in this locality that the first
Palaeolith, which was recognised as an implement, was found at
the end of the seventeenth century, and was deposited in the
Sloane Museum where it lay so many years before its true
importance came to be recognised in quite recent times. It is
now in the British Museum.
Neolithic Implements. These implements have been
collected from various localities in Essex, and have been found
chiefly on the surface or mixed with the soil, without being
specially associated with any ancient site whose existence can
at the present time be recognised,
They are interesting as affording types of the implements of
the newer or polished stone age.
The Epping Forest Camps. These two ancient camps or
earthworks owe their somewhat exceptionable preservation to
the fact of their situation in Epping Forest. One is situated
about one mile north of Loughton from whence it derives its
name, the other is about 11/2 miles from Epping and is known as
Amesbury Banks.
Both these camps have been examined under the direction
of the Essex Field Club. Several sections have been cut across
their ramparts and ditches, and reports of these explorations
published in the Transactions of the Club.
Loughton Camp. This work covers an area of about 12
acres ; the ditch and rampart have a circumference of about
800 yards, forming an enclosure whose shape is that of an
irregular oval.
Among the relics procured during the excavation was a chipped
Celt, several flint flakes and cores, and some fragments of rough