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98-117. Up to the end of the third century A.D. this pottery was 
made of a bright red colour, and was covered with a fine glaze, but 
in the fourth century it degenerated and was constructed of a duller 
red colour. Mr. de Mortillet terms the superior ware of the earlier 
period “ Lugdunienne ” from its connection with the town of Lyons, 
and the later ‘“Champdolienne” from its being frequently found 
in the French cemeteries with interments by inhumation, called 
**Champs-Dolants.” Pottery of both periods have been found in 
the villages and entrenchments of Wilts and Dorset. The fragments 
in Wansdyke were of a quality superior to the imitation Samian, if 
not of the best quality. 
These sections have proved that the Wansdyke was Roman or 
post-Roman, and that tbe entrenchment was on the ground before 
it. I decided to trench over the surface of the interior of the 
entrenchment, and see if any relics could be discovered which would 
prove the date of the entrenchment. I was prevented by illness 
from carrying on the excavations last year, but I renewed them in 
May this year. Another section was cut across the rampart and 
ditch of the entrenchment. Scarcely anything was found in the 
rampart, which showed that that spot could not have been much 
occupied before the entrenchment was thrown up. The ground was 
also trenched over in several places in the interior. Fragments of 
Samian pottery, similar to that found in the sections of Wansdyke, 
_ were found in all of them. The Roman associations of the entrench- 
ment are abundantly proved, but no coins were found, and the 
excavations were then abandoned. For some unexplained reason, 
the people who occupied this entrenchment did not scatter their 
coins about like those of the Settlement of Vindogladia. 
For this reason, we are unable to fix the date of Wansdyke with 
the same certainty as that of Bokerly, although its Roman or post- 
Roman origin has been satisfactorily determined. 
It only remains, in conclusion, to say a few words about the 
historical periods to which these works may, with any degree of 
likelihood, be attributed. The supposition that they were Belgie 
y now, I think, be dismissed, as contrary to the evidence derived 
from the excavations. Dr. Guest was so deservedly esteemed as a 
