220 Excavation of the South Lodge Camp, Rtishmore Park. 



A very slight rise, in the centre of the camp, O., PI. I., produced as 

 many as two hundred and one fragments of coarse British pottery, 

 quality No. 1. It may have been a tumulus, but no bones — either 

 burnt or unburnt — were discovered in it, and it is difficult to say 

 whether it was of the period of the camp, or earlier. My impression 

 is that the place was occupied before the camp was constructed, ou 

 account of the large number of fragments of coarse British pottery 

 found in the rampart. Most of these must have been on the ground 

 before the ditch was cut, and must have been thrown up with the 

 earth : but probably the same pottery continued to be used in the 

 camp afterwards. An area to the south and west, outside the camp, 

 R.R., PI. I., was trenched, to see whether pottery could be found 

 outside the camp also, but only three fragments of coarse British 

 pottery were discovered, and these on the side nearest the camp. 



As to the small lozenge-shaped form of the camp ; in endeavouring 

 to compare it with others, I am not aware of any other camp having 

 been dug over so completely as to prove it to be of the Bronze Age, 

 The only other camp of squarish form that I ever examined, was 

 that of Highdown, in Sussex, in which I found a bronze socketted 

 knife, as recorded in " Archaologla" vol. xlii., p. 27-76, but it was 

 not thoroughly explored, and Saxon remains have since been found 

 there. There are several small camps near Rushmore, a model of 

 one of which was exhibited, which will be explored hereafter. We 

 shall then see whether the square form of camp can be further 

 associated with the Britons of the Bronze Age in this locality. As 

 yet, notwithstanding the number of Bronze Age tumuli which have 

 been opened by Sir Richard Hoare, Dr. Thurnam, and others, no 

 residence of the bronze people, except this one, has been examined 

 in this neighbourhood. 



I have since had the South Lodge Camp completely restored, by 

 throwing the silting, excavated from the ditch, into the rampart, 

 and planting it with mahonia, ivy, and other shrubs to preserve it, 

 so that it probably very much resembles what it was at the time it 

 was in use. 



Since this paper was read two other ditches in this locality, of the 

 Bronze Age, have been explored in the same manner and with similar 



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