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questions overlapping and ranning one into the other, as they were 

 80 intimately connected one with the other. 



The pit was rather at the south extremity of the series of 

 basin-shaped hollows which occupied the south-west corner of the 

 camp. He had no especial reason for selecting this one in par- 

 ticular, except that it appeared not to have been previously 

 disturbed ; it was of an average size, and the depression from the 

 natural slope of the hill was very slight, only about 16 degrees. 



The result of the excavation showed: — First, surface soil, 

 similar to that in all on this side of the camp, containing chipped 

 flints, flakes, and broken implements, land and oyster shells, 

 numeious water-worn pebbles, a few pieces of bone, and fragments 

 of a coarse pottery. Below this, to a total depth of five feet, came 

 a layer of small chalk, rubble, and loam, of a yellowish colour, con- 

 taining a few flint implements, one or two fragments of bone, and 

 a deposit of charcoal surrounded by calcined chalk. This stratum 

 seemed to extend beyond the area of the shaft in north, south, and 

 westerly directions, and was the layer from which Col. Lane Fox, 

 in his extensive excavations in 1872, obtained the greater number 

 of the flint implements on which he founded his a1:)le treatise, read 

 before the Society of Antiquaries. Dead land shells also occurred 

 in this layer, of which by far the greater portion were Cyclostoma 

 Elegans ; but specimens of Helix nemoralis, and one of the rare 

 shell H. ohvoluta (now almost extinct in Sussex), were also found. 

 At five feet (the depth at which the solid chalk at the edge of the 

 pit commenced) the fiUing-in entirely altered, being composed of a 

 moist red eai'th, full of flints worked and unworked, numberless 

 chippings, a fragment or two of stags' horns, and sevei'al patches 

 of charcoal. This feruginous deposit was much thicker in the 

 centre than at the sides ; it seemed much trodden and woni, the 

 implements were mostly huddled together at the centre, but 

 unworked or merely broken flints occurred all through the layer. 



At 10 feet it was replaced by large blocks of pure chalk (in 

 some cases roughly squai'ed) loosely thrown in, the interstices not 

 filled up by looser or smaller material. No change was observable 

 for about three feet, but here, ^az., at 13 feet, came a repetition of 

 the red earth above mentioned, with the same characteristics, but 

 not so thick as the one above, two feet being the greatest depth at 



