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turf, and occupying pits on the west slope of the camp; and as similar 
chippings are scraped out of the rabbits’ holes, it would appear that 
the entire subsoil abounded in such relics. Scraps of vessels, of an 
early hand-made type, also were frequent on the downs; and rolled 
pebbles, with small lumps of clay-iron-stone, indicated that the older 
tertiaries once formed a cap to the hill, Diligent search on Chancton- 
bury, Hollingbury, and Highdown, failed in detecting wrought flints ; 
but at Chanctonbury this was explainable from the small amount of 
chalk-with-flints resting on thé lower chalk, of which the hill is 
formed. Cissbury had the appearance of having been frequented for 
the purpose of forming instruments for the use of the inhabitants of 
the neighbouring districts ; and the pits thought to be British dwellings 
were most likely holes sunk in the chalk for the purpose of obtaining 
the material ; and they might have been used for dwellings as well 
(vide Archeologia, 1868). Around some of the pits hillocks of earth 
were present, thrown out during the excavations ; but he had not had 
sufficient opportunity to determine whether the pits were connected by 
shafts, 
Excavations of greater magnitude, connected by shafts, were 
found not long since by Mr. Greenwell, in Norfolk. They were known 
as Grime’s graves, and were evidently dug for the purpose of obtaining 
flint from the upperchalk. They were about 250 in number, circular 
in outline, varying from 20 to 60 feet in diameter, placed irregularly at 
about 25 feet apart, the whole covering a space of about 20 acres. The 
tools used as picks were antlers of deer ; and in other parts of Norfolk 
‘similar holes had been discovered, known as Dane’s holes, which were 
further found to have been occupied as habitations. They were from 
20 feet to 50 feet in depth, connected by passages at the bottom, and 
in them were found heaps of chipped flints, besides bones of bos 
longifrons, deer, and wolves. 
At Cissbury, Colonel Fox unearthed from 500 to 600 instruments 
of different kinds, in every instance chipped; and from the presence 
of traces of Bos longifrons, Capra hireus, and Sus, he considered they 
were later than the drift, although they might all be classified as 
belonging to the Neolithic or later stone age, as in the case of the 
Norfolk tools, no trace of metals had been found with them. Previous 
to this discovery it was thought that there was a difference in type 
between the valley and surface implements ; but among the Cissbury 
hatchets, some specimens appeared corresponding with the Palceolithic 
