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one of the urns was found a fragment of thin pottery of a unique character, 
very fine basket-work of grass or rushes covered with a coating of clay. 
A pair of bone tweezers, precisely resembling those in the Stourhead 
Collection, was found inside one of the urns with the burnt bones, and on 
the floor of the barrow a fragment of pottery precisely resembling that 
found by Dr. Thurnam in the chamber of the Long Barrow at West Kennet, 
now in the Society’s Museum, and figured in Arch@ologia and Lubbock’s 
Prehistoric Times as an example of Neolithic pottery. General Pitt 
Rivers, however, considers that the finding of this fragment associated with 
Bronze Age objects leaves the age of the West Kennet specimen open to 
doubt. A chipped flint hand tool, presumably of Bronze Age date, was 
found in the ditch of another Round Barrow near Handley. 
From these exhaustive excavations on Handley Down the General deduces 
the fact that the site was occupied by the people of the Neolithic Period, 
who built the Long Barrow, the Round Barrows being afterwards erected 
near it by the Bronze Age People, who occupied a camp or inhabited area 
on the spot—afterwards it was certainly occupied during the Romano- 
British period, and the Long Barrow was again used as a place of interment, 
possibly as the place of public executions. 
On Martin Down, Wilts, a rectangular entrenchment enclosing an area 
of about two acres, was thus treated:—“The excavation of this camp 
occupied four months, with from twelve to sixteen men. The whole of it, 
ditch, rampart, and the greater part of the interior space, was trenched 
down to the undisturbed chalk. Every fragment of pottery and other relics 
were collected and ticketed with the depth at which they were found. The 
classification of the pottery, in accordance with my established system, was 
_ very perfect, and no difficulty arose in determining the class to which each 
fragment belonged. The place being eight miles from my house, I visited 
it every day, and examined the pottery and relics which had been found in 
my absence. The pottery was ticketed immediately after it had been washed 
and identified.” The result was that the rampart and the lower silting of 
the ditch showed enough Bronze Age pottery to make it evident that the 
entrenchment belonged to that period.. From the evidence of this and other 
Bronze Age camps, as distinguished from inhabited areas of the Romano- 
British Age, the General believes that pits were not employed for residence 
in the earlier to the extent that they were in the later period. 
The General draws attention to the great prevalence of common flint-flakes 
in deposits of Roman Age—though he professes himself unable to suggest 
any use for these flakes. 
The volume closes with a note on a Romano-British trench found whilst 
making the nursery gardens at Rushmore, and with an elaborate comparison 
_ of certain patterns found on the pottery from the camps with those on that 
_ found in the barrows—the chevron and straight line diaper patterns and 
_ oblong punch marks being taken for comparison, and their distribution 
_ throughout the world traced. The ornament produced by lines of oblong 
_ punch marks is thus shown to be almost confined to the British Isles, and 
_ probably to certain deposits of the Bronze Age. 
It is needless to say that the volume is crammed with admirable 
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