418 Discoveries near Fonthill. 



Before quitting this site reference must be made to some objects 

 found here in subsequent building operations. In clearing a 

 courtyard to the north a pebble of chert was discovered, roughly 

 cubical in shape, measuring 2|in. x 2^in. All the angles were 

 battered, but the faces showed the original marks of fracture when 

 the implement was made. In digging foundations for a wall to 

 the south of the building a piece of a polished hammer-stone of blue 

 granite (?) was discovered, an amber spindle whorl, or bead, lin. x 

 five-eighths of an inch, pierced by a hole three-sixteenths of an 

 inch, and a large knife or bill, the blade measuring oin. x Ifin. 

 with piece of the socket, of ^in- internal diameter, attached, and 

 a heavy piece of ix'on, looking like part of the arm of an anchor. 



Outer Ashley Down Camp. 



This camp is situated in the south-east corner of the outer 

 Ashley Wood Down, on ground which falls gradually to the 

 west. The camp was so slightly visible, neither the vallum 

 nor the fosse that surrounds it varying more than 1ft. from 

 the natural surface, that no notice seems to have been taken 

 of it, and it is not marked in any of the Ordnance Surveys. In 

 shape it is an irregular square, the north, east, south, and west sides 

 being respectively 188ft. lOin., 180ft., 199ft. 10in.,and 107ft. lOin. 

 At the angles the valla rose into little mounds, an additional 6in. 

 or 1ft. high. In form and situation it thus bears a resemblance 

 to the Bronze Age camps excavated byGen.Pitt-Eivers in Paishmore 

 Park, Handley Down, and Martin Down, and it was reasonable to 

 expect that it would prove to be of the Bronze Age also. A round 

 barrow 500 yards to the east was an additional argument in favour 

 of this theory. An additional feature in this case was a double 

 line of stones 15ft. apart outcropping through the turf and almost 

 traversing the camp from east to west. These are, however, 

 probably the remains of a cattle shed which is reputed to have 

 stood here ; a section across the northern line, though proving it 

 to be the foundation of a wall, failed to bring to light any object 

 by which its age could be determined. 



