By LL.Gen. PiU-Rivers, D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A. 219 



The animal remains consisted of ox, deer, and sheep. No entire 

 bone was discovered, so that it was impossible to compute the 

 stature at the shoulder, by means of the test animals that I have 

 prepared for the purpose; but by comparing the heads of some of 

 the bones, by the eye, it appears that the os was of small size-not 

 larger than that of the Roman Age-and a horn core, found near 

 the bottom of the ditch, shows that it was a " Bos lonffifrons," 

 with horns pointing forwards, like our modern shorthorn, and about 

 the size of our Keny Cow. Nothing savouring of the large " Bos 

 Primlgenius " was discovered. The sheep was a small animal, with 

 slender bones, like that of the Roman age found in the neighbourmg 

 villages, and like those from St. Kilda, of which examples may be 

 seen^'in Rushmore Park. No trace of pig was found; or of horse, 

 so that we may presume the latter was not eaten, and judging by 

 our modern standard, the Bronze Age folk may have been in this 

 respect better feeders that the Roman Britons. Deer was more 

 abundant than in the Roman villages, and bones of a small kind of 

 dog were found, which shows that they were hunters, whilst the 

 Roman Britons in the same locality were sedentary, and lived almost 

 entirely on domesticated animals. Only the bones found in the 

 rubble, at or near the bottom of the ditch, could be taken as repre- 

 senting the animals of the period. 



The camp slopes down towards the west, which'is remarkable, as 

 level ground might have been obtained within a short distance : but 

 this brought them nearer to the bottom of the adjoining Combe, in 

 which pr^obably a spring may have existed in those times. The 

 slope may also have helped to drain the interior of the camp. ^ There 

 were no pits in this camp, such as were common in all the residences 

 of the Romanized Britons. A hole, P., PI. L, evenly cut, 2ft. in 

 diameter and 2ft. 6in. deep, was found, but nothing except fine 

 mixed earth and two pieces of decayed wood were found in it. 

 Numerous soft places in the chalk— which are the bete noire of the 

 excavator in a chalk soil— had to be conscientiously cleared out, but 

 without finding anything that appeared to be artificial, except the 

 small hole above-mentioned and a pit 10-5ft. long, and 5-3ft. wide, 

 Q., PL I., which might have been a grave, but had no bones in it. 



