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and mottled brown glazes, appeared to be abundant outside. Half- 

 a-dozen pieces of coarse gi'anular pottery, a score of nails, a number 

 of brass tags of laces, piece of a horseshoe, a knife-blade, a quarry- 

 man's wedge, and a piece of tin or solder run in a molten condition 

 \v(3re also found liere. 



A wide trench 44ft. long and 12ft. Gin. wide was next dug along 

 tlie eastern side, laying bare the wall of the house. Pottery 

 mingled with numerous oyster shells and a good many animal 

 l)ones was found all over this space, immediately below the turf, 

 and continued thick through the second S2:)it, but a third spit 

 1ft. — 1ft. Gin. below the surface, reaching to undisturbed sandy 

 rock, proved comparatively barren. For the metal objects, which 

 were numerous, reference must be made to the relic table. Refer- 

 ence will only be made here to the two Nuremburg tokens of the 

 15th century, kindly identified by Mr. H. St. George Gray, and 

 which fix the approximate date of the house ; to an apostle spoon 

 of pewter ; and a number of small cylinders of thin bronze sheeting 

 bent round, pierced by a hole at one end, apparently tags of 

 laces. 



The interior was next excavated and yielded remains of a 

 similar character. The house proved to be a rectangular building 

 measuring 13ft. x 21ft. inside, the walls being 2ft. thick and 

 rising 1ft. Gin. — 3ft. high. The dooi', an opening of 3ft. Gin., stood 

 near the middle of the east side ; the fireplace, marked by two 

 roughly-chamfered stone jambs, 5ft. 3in. apart, and the burnt 

 stones of its hearth and back, stood in the north-east corner. Just 

 in front of the hearth a portion of the rim and ear of a bronze 

 cooking pot was discovered. From the front of the left-hand 

 jamb a wall extended across to the west side of the house, enclosing 

 a space which the writer at first conjectured to be a bread oven ; 

 but the discovery of pottery, nails, a horseshoe, and a large iron 

 gouge, lOiin. long and made of ^in. square bar, seemed to suggest 

 that it was the bottom of a cupboard. A dozen pieces of stone 

 ridge tile with roll moulding and between three hundred and four 

 hundred stone tiles were found inside the house. The numerous 

 nails found may have been used to fasten them on. 



