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described for me by Mrs Bagnall-Oakley, who states that 

 it is a coin of Constantius, son of Constantine the Great, 

 struck at the second Mint of Irens. 



There is a never-faiHng spring of water below the 

 escarpment, to which the old path from the Camp can 

 still be traced. - 



The remains of hundreds of pit-dwellings are in and 

 around the Camp. 



I have opened several, and found in them, burnt stones, 

 and charcoal, also foreign pebbles, and pieces of stone 

 known locally as " holy stone."* In one pit-dwelling I 

 found an upright stone placed across it as a division. We 

 dug to about i8 in. below the surface of the ground, and 

 found burnt stones only on one side of it. Pit-dwellings 

 similarly divided have been found in Wiltshire. 



A considerable number of flint implements, and frag- 

 ments of pottery, have been found in, and near, the camp. 

 They consist of scrapers, knives, leaf-shaped arrow points, 

 borers, &c. 



I also found a small lead weight, shown in Fig. i ; and 

 Mr Reed, of the British M-useum, says it was used by the 

 Britons for weighting their drag-nets. 



Fig. I.— Lead Weight, from Minchinhampton. Natural size. 



The pebbles found in the pit-dwellings were probably 

 used in the manufacture of flint implements, and the 

 larger specimens as pestles for grinding purposes. 



Some of the pottery is of a very rude and early type, 

 and was apparently baked in the sun. Other pieces have 

 been baked by fire, and are Romano-Briti-sh in character. 



* [Equivalent to tlie Dagham Stone of tlie Cirencester Great Oolite, £,/.] 



