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the hills; but such a mode of collecting an essential so necessary to 
life must have been very irregular and precarious, 
In arriving at some conclusion respecting the people who formed 
these early weapons and tools, we were in a position to infer that they 
occupied hut villages in convenient places, and in winter selected spots 
porous to water, in order to avoid being flooded, and there framed 
their simple subterranean habitations ; and, under pressure from with- 
out, resorted to their defences on the hills. Their powerful entrench- 
ments, extent of pasturage, and ready access to the coast for fishing, 
implied that they must have been both numerous and warlike. They 
hunted the wolves, hogs, and deer in the great forest of Anderedes- 
wood, then occupying the whole of Central Sussex, and extending into 
Kent and Hampshire. In addition they had their short-horned ox 
(bos longifrons), swine, goats, and sheep ; the large, irregular shaped 
earthworks observable on the slopes of the Downs in many parts of 
the south of England, notably in Wiltshire, being considered as pens 
in which their cattle were herded (vide Sir R. C. Hoare’s Ancient 
Wilts). 
Some of these ancient tribes were more advanced and warlike than 
others, and their implements of flint showed greater design and finish. 
We had evidence of a feeble race who inhabited a subterranean village 
at Fisherton, near Salisbury ; their wigwams were both separate and in 
groups, sunk 10ft. in the gravel and resting on the chalk, They were 
reached by means of circular shafts, and had moveable covers of wattle 
and burnt clay. These poor people had an early knowledge of 
weaving, and cultivated some of the cereals, as testified by the 
presence of rude hand grain-rubbers, Their only implements were 
of bone and stone, and they used, besides, a primitive form of pottery, 
which bore no traces of the potter’s wheel. Similar traces of the flint 
workers of Hampshire had lately come to his knowledge, in excavating 
a Roman building at Finkley, Here a deep cave in the earth, with its 
attendant passage, contained pottery of a similar description to that 
found in the pit dwellings of Wiltshire, while the flint implements 
from the trench corresponded with those picked up in the surrounding 
fields at Finkley. Articles of bone and wood, and spindle-wheels of 
chalk, with charred stones, known as “ pot-boilers,” further threw 
some light on the early state of civilization of the occupants of the 
trench. The above details, however, implied merely differences in 
degree, observable in all conditions of society. The ‘‘ pot-boiler, ” or 
