On the Excavations at Rotherley, Woodcuts, and Bokerly Dyke, 297 
discovered a small fragment of Samian pottery on the top of the 
rampart, near the same spot. So I applied at once to Sir Edward 
Hulse, the owner of the property, who readily gave me permission 
to dig a section through the rampart at this spot. Section 1, 30ft. 
wide, the position of which is marked on the accompanying map, 
was the result of this excavation. Thirty-two coins, extending from 
Gallienus to Constans, were found in the top and rear portion of 
the bank and in the silting of the ditch. Although these were, 
with little doubt, of the period of the entrenchment, it is my 
custom, in cutting sections through ramparts, to distinguish objects 
found in those positions into which they might by any possibility 
have been introduced after the construction of the work, from those 
found in the body of the rampart, which must certainly have been 
placed there during the time or before it was thrown up, and which 
could not by any possibility have got into it afterwards. In this 
latter position one coin of Claudius Gothicus was found 3:1 ft. beneath 
the crest. Some fragments of British and Romano-British pottery 
and a piece of red Samian ware were also found in the same position, 
and on the old surface line, beneath the rampart. It may save time 
to state here that in all sections of ramparts in a chalk soil the old 
surface line, representing the old turf before the rampart was thrown 
over it, can be seen in a distinct line of dark mould beneath the 
rampart. Beneath the silting which had accumulated over the 
ditch, in the course of ages, to the extent of 6ft., or thereabouts, 
two ditches were found one behind the other with a ridge of un- 
disturbed chalk between them. This gave rise to some speculation, 
and other instances, as, for example, at the Roman camp at the 
Saalburg, near Homburg, where two ditches occur outside the 
rampart, were called in evidence to explain the occurrence. But all 
such conjectures were futile. The excavations which I shall describe 
hereafter, subsequently revealed the true cause of this peculiar 
construction, and serve to show how careful it is necessary to be, 
even after excavations have been made, before conclusions are put 
_ forward. In the counterscarp of the outer ditch the remains of pits 
were found, which appeared to be connected with habitations of 
some kind, but no trace of which could be seen on the surface, and 
