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acknowledgment of their freely-rendered services, the names of those 

 acting as watchers and directors of the work, with the dates of their 

 attendances, are here given : — 



Monday, May 30th. — General Pitt-Eivers, Messrs. D'Oyley, Meldola, 

 H. A. Cole, and W. Cole. 



Tuesday, May 31st. — Messrs. Meldola, D'Oyley, A. Lockyer, H. A. Cole, 

 and W. Cole. 



Wednesday, June 1st. — Messrs. Meldola, D'Oyley, F. H. Varley, H. A. 

 Cole, and W. Cole. 



Thursday, June 2nd. — Messrs. Meldola, H. J. Barnes, H. A. Cole, and 

 W. Cole. 



Friday, June 3rd. — Eev. W. Linton Wilson, Messrs. D'Oyley, Meldola, 

 H. A. Cole, and W. Cole. 



Saturday, June 4th. — Messrs. Eobarts, Fisher Unwin, Meldola, D'Oyley, 

 and W. Cole. 



Monday, June 6th. — General Pitt-Eivers, Messrs. Fisher Unwin, 

 Meldola, D'Oyley, H. A. Cole, and W. Cole. 



Tuesday, June 7th. — Messrs. H. A. Cole and W. Cole. 



Wednesday, June 8th. — Messrs. D'Oyley, W. S. Hodge, H. A. Cole, and 

 W. Cole. 



The excavations were watched at night by two of the Forest Keepers, 

 Mr. Luffman and Mr. Butt (permission being kindly given by our member. 

 Captain M'Kenzie, Superintendent of the Forest), in order to protect us 

 from unwelcome visitors ; but their office was almost a sinecure, as no 

 interference with the work was attempted. 



As the investigation progressed it became more interesting. We 

 quickly came upon vestiges of man, and evidence of the use of fu-e in the 

 shape of bits of charcoal and burnt clay. Early on Wednesday morning 

 a considerable deposit of this kind was unearthed near the spot 

 marked "Charcoal" on the section (Plate IV.) — quite a quantity of 

 charcoal, burnt clay, and calcined stones, evidently the remains of a long- 

 continued fire. Near this spot a piece of rim of a pot and a flint flake 

 were turned up. We were soon able to distinguish the "old surface-line" 

 or original undisturbed soil of the Forest, the exact limits of which it was 

 so necessary to define. The artificial character of the soil comjDOsing the 

 rampart was often very noticeable, the successive layers of deposited earth 

 being readily distinguished ; Mr. D'Oyley has indicated this non-natural 

 stratification by shadings on his section. Great care was exercised in 

 making out the true section of the ditch or fosse, the determination of its 

 exact construction being considered by General Pitt-Eivers a matter of 

 much importance. 



In the report of the investigation in the ' Transactions ' but a passing 

 reference has been made to the scanty literature of this earthwork. The 

 Editor has been enabled to find but very few references to it. It was the 

 custom to ascribe it to the Eomans, but local tradition perhaps more 

 justly connected it with the Amazonian heroine. Queen Bodug, and the 



