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earried off by a sudden raid. He suggested that, in some cases, at 
least, the outer bank may have been used as a road, whilst the inner 
embankment was probably crowned by a wooden stockade. 
Having spent some time here the party proceeded to Shepherd’s 
Shore, where they found lunch ready for them in the barn. Whilst 
under shelter here some considerable showers of rain fell, but happily 
with the end of the lunch the rain ended too, and the afternoon, 
though somewhat overcast, was fine—a much better condition of 
things than sunshine and heat, considering the amount of walking 
to be got through. After lunch the breaks took the Members up 
to the point on the dyke—about one mile from Shepherd’s Shore 
towards Tan Hill—where the men were at work on the new cutting. 
The original level of the soil had been reached about half-way 
through the rampart, and whilst the visitors were present several 
pieces of pottery were found in the original dark surface soil—the 
rampart which had ‘been thrown up above this being formed of loose 
chalk rubble. This particular spot was chosen for a cutting on 
account of the small rectangular earthwork projecting from the 
dyke at this place, which General Pitt-Rivers thought might mark 
the site of a settlement of earlier age than the dyke itself. He 
declined to express any definite opinion as yet as to the age of the 
pottery found in this cutting, hoping for further evidence before 
the work was finished. 
Proceeding some distance further, to the foot of Tan Hill, in the 
breaks, the party then alighted, walked up the steep slopes along 
_the dyke, admiring by the way the wealth of down flowers, just 
then at their best, with which the southern side of the rampart was 
carpeted; pausing for a while to enjoy the grand view commanded 
_ by the summit of the hill, and then walking on down the other side 
to Cannings Cross Farm, where the carriages met them again after 
making a long detour. Thence they drove at once to All Cannings, 
where the Rector, the Rev. E. May, very kindly offered tea, an 
invitation which the want of time obliged the archeologists to 
decline. As it was they were somewhat hurried in their inspection 
of the Church, where Mr. Ponting read a paper calling attention 
to the points of interest, especially the rich external ornamentation 
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