434 Oliver's Gamp, Devizes. 



lb is of fine paste, tooled on the surface, and is of Late 



Celtic type. 

 One small sherd of black, and four small sherds of red pottery, 



found on the old surface level : of Bronze Age type, but 



possibly of later date. 

 Seven flint flakes, one calcined flint, and a splinter of bone 



also on the old surface. 



The ditch at this point had been dug originally to a depth of 

 14ft., and had become filled up ll|ft. ; it measured 22ft. in vsridth 

 at the top and 4ft. at the bottom, with a slope on the outer side 

 of 41 degrees. The peculiar features of the fiUing-in of this ditch 

 were the same in character as those shown in the continuation of 

 the ditch on the north side of the entrance, and described above 

 (Fig. 4). Whether the upper rubble filling-in of this ditch was 

 thrown in purposely, or only came there through the slow processes 

 of Nature, it is, in any case, a fact that only Koman remains were 

 found scattered from the top to the bottom of the rubble ; no later 

 relics were mingled with the Roman, and nothing Roman was 

 found below it. Red Roman ware of precisely the same kind was 

 found from 18in. to 6ft. deep. It is true that very little of any 

 kind was found below the rubble in this section, but, in the longer 

 section at the entrance, where pottery was found below this depth, 

 none of it was of Roman make, whilst Roman pottery predominated 

 in the rubble in both sections. 



Relics found in the Ditch. 



In the 1st foot below the turf : — Fragment of glass, much oxidized ; 

 piece of sarsen ; and a few flint chips. 



2nd „ ditto : — A few flint chips ; two sherds of thin red 

 pottery, much weathered: Romano-British. 

 A sarsen muller ; a flat piece of sandstone, 

 2^in. X 2|in. — it has grooves worn on one 

 surface and appears to have been used as 

 a sharpener. 



3rd „ ditto : — Three small much weathered sherds of grey 



