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smooth, and there was a distinct vallum and ditch. Did Mr. Willett 

 suppose that the vallum was raised at a later period ? 



Mr. Willett said he had not examined a pit outside the camp; 

 and could not say. 



The President : Merely, from the natural shape of the ground, 

 it did not appear that there was suflacicnt earth dug out from the 

 ditch to form the vallum. 



Mr. Willett : They may have done that to find the pits. 



Mr. C. F. Dennet : How did they account for there being no 

 sort of cooking utfensil in the pits ? They must have had some- 

 thing for cooking their food. 



Mr. Willett : Their cooking material was charcoal. The only 

 utensil found had been a piece of chalk. Mr Tyndall, in his pit, 

 found a piece of chalk, excavated like a cup ; and in the Grime's 

 Graves four such cups were found. These were supposed to have 

 been used as floating lamps. It would have been pei-fectly 

 impossible to woi'k in the pits without some light ; and the people 

 might have used large pieces of chalk for pots ; but none such were 

 found, nor of other pottery. 



Mr. 0. F. Dennet, as one of the members of the society who 

 visited the pit, thought the people must have had some rule or 

 plummet by which they worked by measure, the walls being quite 

 smooth. It still puzzled him that, in the excavations of Mi'. 

 Willett and Canon Greenwell, no utensils had been found that 

 could have been used for eating or drinking. 



Mr. Willett said Mr. Tyndall, in his pit, found about four 

 pieces of chalk, bell-shaped, with a hole bored through the top ; but 

 he (Mr. Willett) could not tell what they were for. 



Mr G. Scott thought they would not be likely to find cooking 

 utensils in a chalk pit. 



Mr. Willett mentioned that no barrows were found at Cissbury 

 or its neighbourhood. The people must have had chiefs — at least 

 there was no reason to believe otherwise — but no British barrows 

 had been found. 



