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masonry in its lower two feet of depth the upper of the two 
crossed skeletons should be four inches below the top of the 
masonry, then the second, and six inches below this the tall 
warrior gashed through skull and thigh in the attack 525 years 
later, and then the black mould of the decayed roof and the 
stores of the time of Ostorius Scapula? 
Again, in a pit which I myself saw opened were two skeletons, 
as if in the attitude of a struggle, the lower of which had its skull 
broken in against a sharp angle of rock at the bottom of the pit. 
And one of the iron weapons, apparently a spear head, eight 
inches long, lay, as Mr. Warre has recorded, just above the very 
floor of a pit. 
If we suppose the huts to have been burned and to have fallen 
in, and in some cases the dwarf wall of dry stones, such as that 
found by Mr. Bloxam, to have been pushed in on the burnt 
material of the hut (which might well have been done, even to 
extinguish the fire, or in a struggle), in other cases merely earth 
or nothing at all pushed in ; then a successful assault of auxiliaries 
variously armed, and the heavy legionaries : I think the necessary 
conditions of all that we found in the pits had been fulfilled. 
But it would be presumptuous to insist on this in a positive way. 
' I will state Mr. Warre’s conclusions in his own words.* “That 
the place was destroyed by Ostorius in the reign of the Emperor 
Claudius, and deserted during the period of the Roman occupa- 
tion ; that the black earth and burnt wood which are usually 
found a few inches above the solid rock in most of the hut circles 
are leavings of the inhabitants of the place at the time of Ostorius’ 
attack ; and that the pottery is almost all of British manufacture, 
some probably Belgic, the work of the last two or three centuries 
before the Roman invasion. That at the time of the West Saxon 
irruption under Ceawlin, in the year 577, some of the Romanized 
Britons took refuge within these ramparts, and that the skeletons, 
* Proc, Som. A. and N, H. S., 1853, p, 124. 
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