. REPORT ON THE STAPENHILL EXPLORATIONS. 169 
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Fragments of Pottery. 
Depth beneath the surface Flints. Animals’ 
of the ground. Bones. 
Saxon. Roman. 
Beat. O° 2° ft. - 32. 19 40 28 23 
Bilas 59 3 9s ° 25 26 39 
3» 9» 4 » O° 46 14 67 
4 5 9 5 95 ° 23 10 26 
5 99 6 ” ° Io 5 30 
The flints found in this ditch were, for the most part, rough and 
water-worn, and may have been chippings or flakes, and, as is 
seen in the table, were found at all depths, the greatest number, 
however, occurring near the surface. Only one, and that at a 
depth of ‘five to six feet, could with any degree of certainty be 
called a genuine flake or arrowhead. 
The bones belonged to various animals; such as the pig, 
goat, horse, and ox; but those of the last were met with in the 
greatest abundance, especially in the deeper portions of the 
ditch. 
Of the pottery, one very remarkable feature was the very few 
water-worn shards that were met with; no whole vessel of any 
kind was found, but all the fragments had the appearance of being 
cleanly broken very shortly before they got into the ditch. With 
the exception of a few of Saxon origin which were met with near 
the surface, they were all of Roman or Romano-British manu- 
facture. Several rims of those white ware vessels, which are so 
common and so characteristic of the Roman period, and known 
as Mortaria, occurred in this ditch ; a few pieces of Samian ware, 
and many pieces of redware, roughly made, as in imitation of 
Samian, were found ; but by far the larger number of pieces met 
_ with were of all shades of greenish or brownish grey to black. 
Amongst these there were a few fragments which, from the style 
of ornamentation, might at first sight pass for Celtic, but the 
texture, colour, and material would seem to point to Romano- 
British. One piece of very fine texture and material, and carefully 
