. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . ure to the unenclosed character of their sur-roundings. Both of these earthworks have beenscientifically investigated by the Essex Field Club,under the direction of General Pitt-Rivers. Theoldest of the two, Loughton Camp, encloses aboutII or 12 acres, and occupies a good defensiveposition on the southern headland of an elevatedplateau ; the evidence from the excavations—flintflakes, pottery fragments, etc.—fairly established forit an early British or pre-Roman origin. Ambres-bury Banks, some 2 m. to the north of Loughtonearthwork, is clo
. with thirty two illustrations and two maps . ure to the unenclosed character of their sur-roundings. Both of these earthworks have beenscientifically investigated by the Essex Field Club,under the direction of General Pitt-Rivers. Theoldest of the two, Loughton Camp, encloses aboutII or 12 acres, and occupies a good defensiveposition on the southern headland of an elevatedplateau ; the evidence from the excavations—flintflakes, pottery fragments, etc.—fairly established forit an early British or pre-Roman origin. Ambres-bury Banks, some 2 m. to the north of Loughtonearthwork, is close to the modern high roadat the fourteenth milestone on the way fromLondon to Epping. Popular tradition assigns itsconstruction to Queen Boadicea, when making herfinal stand against Suetonius. The excavationsbrought to light flints and imperfectly bakedpottery ; it is considered to be most probably ofthe Bronze Age. The height of the rampart wasoriginally 10 ft. and the V-shaped ditch of corre-sponding depth. A tremendous legal battle lasting 154. I-PPING FOREST—FAULKBOURN for three years, and the final hearing for seventeendays, in which the Corporation of the City ofLondon played so honourable a part, secured thepresent open area for the use of the public forever, at a cost of jf 2 50,000. Epping Forest wasformally declared open by Queen \ictoria on 6thMay 1882. (For further particulars see the mostadmirable descriptive and historical guide toEpping Forest with excellent maps by Mr E. Price is.) Fairsted (3 m. from Hatfield Peverel). Church(St Mary) is of Norman origin, with semicircularbirck arch into chancel. Chancel and tower 13thcent. ; the former has piscina and two shingled spire, and north timbered the tower is a huge oak dug-out, iron-banded chest, 9 ft. long and 2 ft. wide. Linenfoldbenches in nave early i6th cent. Considerablyrestored in 1890, when a large number of wall-paintings, illustrative of our Lords life, were d
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