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rampart at this section was the seam of decayed turf which ex- 

 tended from the old turf line right up to the surface. This seam 

 was so very regular and of such uniform thickness that the turf 

 must have been used with method in building the rampart. It 

 must have taxed the ingenuity and skill of the builders to keep 

 the rampart up at the required angle, and from slipping and 

 spreading at the base, and this would be especially difficult as the 

 rampart is built almost entirely of irregular lumps of chalk. 

 Layers of turf would help to steady and to bind this loose ma- 

 terial together, and it is highly probable that all the available turf 

 from the surface of the ditch was used for this purpose, thus ac- 

 counting for its being met with in regular strata at intervals in 

 the rampart. 



Under the centre of the rampart there was a gap of about 18in. 

 in the continuity of the old turf ; a considerable sod must have 

 been removed from this spot before the rampart was made, but 

 for what purpose it is useless to conjecture. 

 The following finds were made : — 



A fragment of 'iron Sin. x fin., 2ft. below the surface in seam 

 of turf. This piece of iron is, perhaps, a part of a blade of 

 a knife. 

 Part of the jaw of a fox or small dog, 2ft. 6in. below the sur- 

 face in seam of turf. 

 Part of the base of a pot, 3ft. Sin. below the surface in the 

 seam of turf, of thin reddish ware, the surface much 

 weathered, probably wheel-turned, size 2in. x Ifin. Only 

 two fragments of pottery, which appear to be superior to 

 that of the Bronze Age, were found in the body of the 

 rampart, and this is one of them ; insignificant as it appears 

 it is, therefore, one of the most important of the " finds." 

 Mr. St. George Gray, to whom it was submitted, says that 

 it is "probably wheel turned," and that it is of either 

 Eomano-British or Late Celtic manufacture. 

 A fragment of rim, l^in. x Ifin., found 4ft. below the turf 

 on the old surface level. This is the second fragment of 

 pottery found under the rampart of post-Bronze Age type. 



