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pottery and ornaments of uncouth workmanship ; and not on these 
alone, but on the skeletons of the poor barbarians themselves, 
gashed through skull and limb with fearful wounds and thrown 
headlong amidst the ruins of the huts they had so vainly 
defended. 
Those who have stood on the edge of the pit and have seen 
the bones gradually uncovered of combatants who died in the 
death-grapple so many ages ago will not easily forget the sight. 
The hut-circles were outwardly marked by a ring of stones 
somewhat raised above the general level, within which there was 
a bare surface of limestone rubble or small stones somewhat sunk. 
But Mr. Bloxam who visited and described the encampment in 
1845 says, ‘in one part are the apparent remains of the walls of 
one of these huts standing to the height of eighteen inches or 
two feet ; these walls are eighteen inches in thickness, constructed 
of stones, mostly small, piled one above another, enclosing a space 
not more than four feet six long by four feet wide.” He thinks 
“that there is little reason to doubt but that these cavities are 
the sites of the huts of the ancient Britons, and that the stones 
with which they are filled are those of the walls.” He also 
noticed that “some of the stones seem to have undergone the 
action of fire.” “ Archeological Journal,” vol. 1, p. 309. 
In the loose mass of rubble the crowbar might be thrust to 
some depth, and in this manner the pits were first tried to ascer- 
tain which were best worth examining. 
The loose rubble was then thrown out to the depth of about 
five feet in most instances and below this the interesting contents 
of the pits were disclosed. 
The first pit opened presented only a little coarse pottery and 
some wood in a condition resembling that of charcoal. ‘On the 
next day,” says Mr. Warre, “I was unavoidably absent, but the 
work was continued under the superintendence of Mr. Atkins, 
Dr. Tomkins, and Mr. Bailward, and on clearing a similar hole, at 
about five feet six inches below the surface ‘of the ground was 
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