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that of Highdown — another similar camp on the hills west of 

 Cissbury — if it does not prove them to be of the Bronze Age, will, 

 at least, reveal them to be pre-Roman works. 



The pottery turned up in the camps of this period, is, as one 

 may well imagine, of a fragmentary character, consisting as it does of 

 the thousands of the shards of easily-broken domestic vessels. The 

 majority of the fragments so found are of the texture and quality 

 of the cinerary urns and other vessels used for sepulchral purposes. 

 This, and the fact of the discovery in the filling of the ditches of 

 several nearly complete urns in a fragmentary state similar to 

 those used for cinerary purposes, seems to militate against the 

 generally received opinion as to the class of vessels found with 

 interments being manufactured exclusively for mortuary purposes. 



Iron Age. — The last phase of the prehistoric period with which 

 we now have to deal is that lying between the introduction of the 

 knowledge of the use of iron and the coming of the Romans in 

 the first century B.C. In all probability this period was of short 

 duration compared with that of the Bronze Age. Our knowledge 

 of it is but scanty, and few examples of the pottery of this the 

 early Iron Age have as yet been discovered. From the study of 

 well authenticated remains, however, we gleam this much, namely, 

 that the coast tribes of the south-eastern portion of Britain were 

 in a variety of ways influenced by and had adopted many of the 

 arts and customs of the Gauls who inhabited the neighbouring 

 continental regions, and with whom they are in constant com- 

 munication. 



The Gaulish influence is most notable in the coinage as well 

 as by the introduction of the potter's wheel, the use of which the 

 continental tribes had probably derived by more direct contact 

 with southern civilisation. This latter instrument enabled our 

 prehistoric potter to impart grace and symmetry to his fictile pro- 

 ductions, and its application is apparent from the forms of the 

 majority of the best known examples of the so-called late Celtic 

 pottery. The sketches I exhibit are of two such specimens 

 found in Kent, and of the two discovered by General Pitt-Rivers 

 in his excavation of the late Celtic pits in the interior of Mount 

 Caburn Camp near Lewes. Mr. Park Harrison also found the 

 fragmentary remains of two pots in similar pits dug by the tribes 

 of the early Iron Age in the interior of Cissbury Camp. 

 Fortunately these are in our Museum and are now exhibited, 

 together with a very fine example of this class of pottery found at 

 the bottom of Elm Grove during excavations for the foundations 

 of a church. In shape, texture, and ornamentation, the latter 

 closely resembles the specimens from Mount Caburn and 

 Cissbury. 



Roman Britain.— Having passed the prehistoric periods of 

 Britain in rapid review, that now remaining to form the conclusion 

 of my paper is the Roman occupation. The duration of this, I 



