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Mr. G. Scott had not knovra that Mr. Willett was going to 

 give up the idea that Cissbury was a pre-Roman encampment. He 

 thought the whole circumstance of the hill, and the throwing up of 

 the vallum, was distinctly of an earlier period than Roman. 



Mr. Willett took it that it was made under the Roman 

 occupation, but by the British. 



Mr. Dennet : It was a nice piece of engineering — whenever 

 it was done. It was so good that it might have been made not more 

 than fifty years ago. 



Mr. Clayton said considerable discussion was caused when 

 tlie society visited Cissbury as to the origin of certain brown 

 marks upon the chalk. He understood that Mr. Willett attributed 

 it to the weather ? 



The President said that, having asked for some of the chalk 

 to be removed that had not previously been disturbed, and having 

 found the same marks as upon the surface, the conclusion he 

 arrived at was that the marks were not caused by the weather. 

 The same marks were, moreover, to be seen in the Hastings sand 

 and other places. 



Mr. Willett : Then it was a matter of fracture rather than 

 of weather. 



Mr. Scott wished to say how much pleasure it afforded him 

 to be able U) congratulate the society on having amongst them 

 that evening Mr Ernest Willett. He was delighted to welcome 

 him there as his father's son, and also as a rising and painstaking 

 archaeologist. It had come to be a kind of fashion to speak of 

 Bi-ighton as a place of pleasure, with nothing else behind; but he 

 did not believe this to be so. During his knowledge of Brighton, 

 the taste for archa;ology had greatly advanced, and nothing had 

 givea him more delight during the last few years than to find that 

 Mr. Ernest Willett was studying that subject with much industry 

 and assiduity. When, on coming to Brighton, he (Mr. Scott) fii'st 

 presided over that department of science, at a soiree held at the 

 Pavilion, the gentleman who had previously fulfilled that duty 

 came to him and said that he " did " archaeology very differently 

 from the way he had " done " it. Indeed, the gentleman fi~dnkly 



