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been subsequently retained and organised for purposes of subjugation 
by a successful invader. The earthworks, consisting of a single ram- 
part, of varying depth, and ditch, enclosed about 60 acres, the entire 
work indicating considerable engineering skill, and must have been the 
work of a people possessed of the advanced appliances of labour ; and 
although attributed to the Romans, it would appear to have been 
formed anterior to, or at the same period as, the people who 
wrought the flint implements within the camp, He saw no reason 
why the work should not have resulted from the brave old Britons, 
who, with all their native ruggedness, sturdily resisted the best 
generals of Rome for 260 years, from Cesar. to Severus, a time equal 
to the period intervening between Queen Elizabeth’s time and ours, 
_ besides the task of keeping them in subjection an additional 200 years, 
and which they surely could not have done had the Britons been as 
combined in their social and military organization as the Romans were ; 
but they were split up into sections and subdued in detail. 
In much of the refuse lately thrown out of the pits the flints 
exhibited recent surface patination, whereas the implements scattered 
about the hill had evidently undergone long exposure to atmospheric 
agencies, the surface colour in some specimens penetrating to the depth 
of a quarter of an inch. He apprehended that over the general 
surface of the campa mere film of wrought flints would be found, as 
without excavations extended operations could not have been carried 
on. He had had no opportunity of observing any section of the upper 
chalk of the hill; but in the Hampshire chalk-with-flints, the flint 
layers ran in planes through the chalk, at distances varying from 3 to 6, 
- and in some instances from 10 to 12 feet apart, so that, placing the 
Cissbury chalk on a similar footing, mining to some depth must have 
been necessary to prevent exhaustion of the material. It had further 
been found that newly dug flints were more easily wrought than those 
which had suffered exposure. 
Evidences of Roman occupation had turned up in the shape of 
coins, found both on the hill and at the foot of it; and he, himself, 
picked up Samian and terra cotta ware at Cissbury and Chanctonbury ; 
indeed, the soil in the centre of the fortification at the latter hill 
abounded in good Roman British pottery. An undoubted testimony 
to British occupation at Cissbury occurred in an almost incalculable 
amount of refuse chips, resulting from the manufacture of flint 
implements, with some rudely finished specimens strewed about the 
