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This pottery appears to be often hand- 

 made, and when not too weathered always 

 shows a tooled surface, and is often striated. 

 This striated and tooled surface is generally 

 recognised as typical of much of the Late 

 Celtic pottery. The pottery found at the 

 camp is sometimes red all through, at others 

 grey on the inner side. The clay is gene- 

 rally mixed with fine grains of quartz sand, 

 sometimes with larger grains of quartz. It 

 is interesting to find it for the first time in 

 this ditch at a depth of over 5ft., and in 

 association with undoubted Eoman ware. 

 One sherd of fine black wheel-turned pot- 

 tery, 2 X If in. : of Late Celtic type. Two 

 small sherds, much weathered and indefi- 

 nite in character. Fragment of the base 

 of a vessel of black well made wheel-turned 

 pottery, much striated on the surface. Mr. 

 H.St.GeorgeGray,to whom this piece was 

 submitted, says " The piece of black pottery 

 is, I think I may say, undoubtedly Late 

 Celtic." Fragment of red ware : Komano- 

 British. An iron staple Ifin. x l|in. 

 The points are very blunt but they do not 

 seem to have been broken. The only piece 

 of metal found in this length of the ditch : 

 Eoman ? 



All these relics in the 5th foot were in 

 or on the dark seam as described above. 

 Below this there was no trace of Eoman 

 pottery. 

 In the 6th foot below the turf :— Nothing was found in this foot. 

 7th ditto :— A pig's tooth. Two sherds of pottery of the 

 same type as that described above, as 

 occurring on this site. The larger is 



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