Il8 ON SOME DIGGINGS NEAR BRASSINGTON, DERBYSHIRE. 



all. At the present moment a similar state of things obtains in 

 India, every transition in culture being met with, from the 

 villa of the European or wealthy native, fitted up with every 

 Western appliance, to the hut of the rude hill-man, scarcely 

 distinguishable in construction and contents from that of his 

 ancestor of a thousand years ago. 



II. — The Ruined Barrov^^. 



The writer had observed that the ground between the " Arm 

 Chair " and the " Pulpit " was much broken, and especially 

 noteworthy were some semi-connected low mounds, so disposed 

 as to suggest the fosse of a so-called " Druid's Circle," shorn of 

 its standing stones, or the periphery of a demolished round 

 barrow. This broken ground forms part of a strip of land, about 

 150 by 78 feet, having the brow of the hill for its western 

 boundary, and a line of protruding weather-beaten rocks for its 

 eastern. Both line and strip come to an abrupt termination 

 northwards in the highest point of the hill — the site of the 

 " Jubilee" beacon, and at the opposite end, a low artificial mound 

 extends from the rocks to the brow. This mound is 56 feet long, 

 with an average width of 7 feet, and height of 18 in. ; and is 

 constructed of stones thrown together without any arrangement. 

 It is impossible to say how old it is ; but it has probably no con- 

 nection with the remains about to be described. 



On June ist, we commenced operations on the " Circle " (about 

 46 feet in diameter from crest to crest), by making two small 

 trenches to determine the nature of the mounds — one on the 

 north-west side, and the other on the south-west. In each 

 case a 6 in. layer of vegetable mould covered a rubble of half 

 decayed dunstone, which at a further depth of 2 feet (under the 

 summit) gave place to the natural marly soil. In the north-west 

 trench a small fragment of the usual type of Harborough pottery 

 was picked up from just below the turf. 



Trench A. — Our next trench took a north-and-south direction 

 in the centre of the enclosed area of the " Circle." A similar 

 sequence of deposits was observed. Midway, there was a depres- 



