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found in the bottom of Pit 1, and a piece of similar ware was 

 found on top of the same pit. 



Trenches in the Interior of the Camp. 



The interior of the camp was trenched over in the hope of finding 

 pit-dwellings or other signs of occupation. In all forty-six trenches 

 were cut, varying in size from. 4ft. by 2ft. to 40ft. by 20ft., 

 wherever there seemed a likelihood of finding traces of habitation. 

 Except for the discovery of two hearth sites, however, no traces of 

 habitations could be found, and in many of the trenches not even 

 a worked flint turned up to reward the labour of cutting them. 



There was a considerable accumulation of soil, sometimes as 

 much as 3ft. in depth, in the north-east, south-east, and south-west 

 corners, and the trendies in these corners were rather less barren 

 than those in the centre and sides of the camp. Anyone who 

 reads this account of the remains found in the interior of the camp 

 must be struck by their extreme paucity.. It is, indeed, difficult 

 to understand how the camp could have been occupied for any 

 length of time and betray such little evidence of it. 



With the apparent exception of a piece of tile, and a very 

 small piece of thin red Koman ware, as to which the exact 

 position where it was found is not known, all of the remains from 

 the interior of the camp might quite as well be of pre-Eoman as 

 of Eomano-British date. Only fragments of pottery were found, 

 and, invaluable as pottery is as a guide to date, it must be re- 

 membered that it is only safe up to a certain point ; and that while 

 there is evidence that pottery was not made on a wheel in 

 Britain during the Bronze Age, and that certain types were 

 not known before the Eoman period, it is very uncertain how 

 long the older types persisted beside the newex\ There can be no 

 reasonable doubt that the same type of pottery went on being 

 made in Britain for long after the Eoman conquest as had 

 been made before it, just as native Indian pottery is made in India 

 to-day. It is only in association, or in a large series, that it is safe 

 to feel any kind of certainty as to the actual date of the types 

 which are thus necessarily common to both periods. 



