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considerable height; they do not enclose a definite area like an 
entrenched camp, but seem to mark a boundary. There is no 
tradition about them, and they may be Celtic tribal boundaries 
such as are found in Wiltshire. Across the crest of the ridge 
the bank is double, with a deep ditch or fosse between the two, 
and a single bank extends for a long way on either side. 
On the next hill is a fine entrenched camp of irregular form, 
and about one hundred yards in diameter, and within the 
enclosure are numerous small barrows. On the north-eastern 
side of the hill are about seventy cup-shaped depressions ; the 
three upper ones next the camp entrance are evidently for 
storing rain-water, being 63 ft. in diameter and very deep ; eight 
others, about 40 ft. in diameter, might have been used for the 
same purpose; but the remainder, from 20 ft. to 36 ft. diameter, 
could not have been so used, as they dip with the slope of the 
hill. Here is probably the site of a well-preserved British 
village, such as have been found and described in other chalk 
districts. Sir R. C. Hoare, in his ‘Ancient Wiltshire,’ calls 
similar remains ‘‘pond barrows,’’ and considers them to be 
sites of British habitations. He says:—‘‘I suppose the shallow 
excavation to be the area of the hut, and the low surrounding 
vallum the basis on which the superstructure rested, consisting 
of long-rafters meeting at the top over the centre of the area, 
like a pile of hop-poles; and these, being strengthened and 
closed in with boughs and thatch, formed the habitation.”” The 
ancient writers state that the Britons sometimes lived in holes 
in the ground, and that their huts were covered with skins of 
animals or boughs of trees. 
So far as I can ascertain, this particular site has never been 
described, but a somewhat similar one near Goodwood, which 
does not now exist, was described by Mr. Saul in ‘Notitia 
Britannica,’ and this consisted of fourteen pits. The whole 
site would doubtless repay investigation, and I hope to be able 
to get permission to dig there. I am informed that the only 
attempt made has been the removal of about twenty feet square 
of turf within the enclosure, where a few Roman coins were 
found. 
The Roman road (Stane Street), traceable from near Dorking 
through Ockley, and again at Billingshurst and Pulborough, 
runs in nearly a straight line across the downs on the other side 
of the Arun valley towards Chichester (Regnum), where, accord- 
ing to the Saxon Chronicle, the South Saxons, under Alla, 
landed towards the end of the fifth century (at Cymeus-ora, now 
Wittering, in 475 a.p.), and in 491 a,.p. took and destroyed 
Pevensey (Anderida). Their line of march must necessarily 
have been along the open country of the downs, as the Roman 
roads ran towards the north; the level country between the 
