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 ANCIENT EARTHWORKS of Stane Street. Cottages occupy part of the fosse, the rampart is in the grounds of Mount House, and there is no doubt that we have here part of one side of a large, otherwise destroyed camp. CANEWDON. There is said to have been a camp here of oblong form, which enclosed about 6 acres. At the beginning of last century the vallum had been levelled, but the fosse was still visible. Mr. Benton considered that ' Duckett's Mead,' which adjoins the fosse before men- tioned, and had a ditch a rod wide on its northern side, probably occu- pied the site of the camp. HARWICH. No remains of a camp are now to be seen, but from Morant we learn that in his day traces existed at least half a mile long, one side of the work running southerly from without the Town-gate to the Beacon Hill field, in the midst of which was a tumulus. The rampart was in many places 12 feet high, and the ditch, though chiefly filled up, at least 6 feet deep and 40 feet wide. The sea had devoured the rest. On the top of the hill another work ran across from the former in an easterly direction. The Essex historian considered the camp a work of the Romans. HORKESLEY (GREAT). Here are some remains of an earthwork known as ' Pitchbury ' or ' Pitsbury Ramparts.' When the late Rev. Henry Jenkins described the camp in 1841, he stated that it was of oval shape, X!^'3SS^* t and contained about 6 acres. Most of ^^^^("'''w'yl!^ it was levelled for agricultural operations /!^>*'X* ffffjr ^^JUfXf Pirch about fifty years ago, but there are still A fafjjr J . J . c *~^/f* Pihchbury some remains, consisting or two banks with their accompanying ditches. The lines moreover of that part which was destroyed can be partially traced in the adjoining fields. Gretrf Horkesley LAYER MARNEY. The Rev. H. Jenkins writing in 1863 said that until /--B lately there were at Haynes Green, ~^* / * t r^" J -, 2?t . s , t; between Layer Marney Wood and Pods- From measurement, kindly .u PP ucd > Y wood, the remains of a double-trenched Roman camp, which was then gradually disappearing beneath the encroachments of the plough. 1 Its condition is now so fragmentary that it is impossible to guess its purpose. It has not the slightest appearance of ever having formed part of the entrenchments of a Roman camp. LEYTON. In the grounds of Rukholt Manor there were, in the early part of last century, the remains of an ancient entrenchment on a small eminence rising from the river Lea, which appeared to consist of a square embankment enclosing a circular one. The latter was about 33 feet in diameter, surrounded by a moat about 6 yards in width ; the 1 The remains are doubtless the same as those a plan of which was published in the Traniaetiotii a/ the Essex Arc hfo logical Society in 1895. 285
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