210 Excavation of the South Lodge Camp, Rusfimore Park. 



frost and rain, which would be amply sufficient to account for the 

 silting up, considering the great length of time the ditches have 

 been exposed to these influences. 



The objects discovered in the ditch, exclusive of pottery, were as 

 follows : — at the south-west angle, a bronze chisel at the bottom of 

 the ditch, D., Pis. I., II., and III. This has a flat edge at one 

 end, and must be regarded as a chisel, though narrower than most 

 objects of the kind. Nothing exactly like it is figured in the works 

 of Sir William Wilde or Sir John Evans, but some bronze chisels 

 equally narrow, from the Swiss Lakes, are figured by Keller. Two 

 implements of the form known as razors, one at the bottom of the 

 ditch at the north-east angle, E., Pis. I., II., and III. This and 

 the chisel must have been deposited at the same time as the urn, 

 when the ditch was open, soon after its construction. The other 

 razor, F., Pis. I., II., and III., which was a better formed one, with 

 a notch at the top end, and a tang at the bottom, was found 3ft. 

 deep on the east side, just below the mould and above the chalk 

 rubble. The ditch must therefore have been filled, or silted up, 

 3ft. before this object was dropped into it, Section, PI. II. 

 Bronze razors of this description are well-known objects of the 

 Bronze Age, and are so called because some of them are found with 

 an edge as sharp as a pen-knife. Sir John Evans records the finding 

 of one in the Thames at Wallingford with a socketted knife, but 

 he dr9s not state how this connection was established in a river-bed. 

 One formerly in the Stourhead Collection, but now in the Museum 

 at Devizes, also resembles this one, but does not appear to have the 

 notch at the tip. One was found with a hoard of bronze implements 

 in the Heathery Burn Cave. They have been found in Ireland, 

 and Sir W. Wilde figures one and describes two others. They have 

 also been found in Scotland and Wales, but Canon Greenwell does 

 not mention them in " British Barrows.'* Somewhat, though not 

 precisely similar razors of bronze, evidently connected with these 

 in point of form, have been found abroad, and Csesar mentions that 

 the Britons shaved. 



Near the razor, and at the same level, viz., 3ft. beneath the 

 surface of the silting of the ditch, was found the greater part of a 



