OBJECTS OF INTEREST. 59 feet, and the ditch of corresponding depth. Both height and depth are much diminished by the denudation of ages. The Loughton Camp, which is distant about 2 miles south-east of Ambresbury Banks, is a smaller intrenchment containing 11 or 12 acres, but not so well defined; and is besides covered and partly concealed by a dense growth of beeches dwarfed by pollarding. There is even less symmetry of outline; and the constructors seem to have been guided solely by the desire to take advantage of every inequality for purposes of defence. To this the commanding nature of the site—a promontory projecting from a level ridge, and overlooking the marshy valley of Debden Slade, more than 100 feet below it—lends itself. Rabbits and foxes have taken advantage of the bank, and their operations have added to the destructive effects of time. In the course of the investigation of the camp by the Essex Field Club, similar sections as in the case of Ambresbury were cut through the rampart and ditch, so as to expose the old surface- line, or the original floor of earth upon which the bank was piled. Here also were found many flint "chips" and fragments of a primitive kind of hand-made pottery, pointing to a British origin. The excavation showed that the section of the ditch in both camps was V-shaped, instead of the more common flat-bottomed form. General Pitt- Rivers says that the evidence before him is "sufficient to identify the camp as pre-Roman, and probably of a very early period." The view from this point towards the south is one of the most extensive and beautiful in the Forest. Greensted Church. — Although five miles