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lined with diagrams illustrating the silting up of the ditches far 

 better than by any written description. The history of the 

 occupation of the district, during the period of silting, may be 

 attained by the pottery, the implements, and the animal remains, 

 especially those of man ; this is especially the case with the 

 pottery. In British ditches the fragments of the pottery of that 

 period will, of course, be found at the bottom, that of the 

 Bronze age intermediate, and the Romano-British uppermost. 

 Thus some idea may be formed of the length of time that has 

 elapsed since the execution of the ditch. 



General Pitt-Rivers largely contributed to antiquarian litera- 

 ture. In the year 1872 he read an elaborate paper before the 

 members of the Geological Society on "The Discovery of 

 Palaeolithic Implements in the Gravels of the Thames Valley," 

 for which he was complimented by Sir Joseph Prestwich and 

 Sir William Flower in the discussion which followed the paper. 

 There are also several of his papers published in the " Archaeo- 

 logia." His authority is claimed by Lord Avebury (Sir John 

 Lubbock) in " Prehistoric Times," by Sir John Evans in " Ancient 

 Stone Implements of Great Britain," by Professor Boyd Dawkins 

 in "Early Man in Britain," and " British Barrows" by 

 Canon Greenwell. General Pitt-Rivers published four quarto 

 volumes describing his explorations in the neighbourhood of 

 Rushmore, illustrated by maps, plates, diagrams, and tables, 

 which leave nothing to be desired. Among his works are also 

 The History of King John's House at Tollard Royal, illustrated 

 by 25 plates, his Inaugural Address at the annual meeting of the 

 Royal Archaeological Institute at Salisbury in 1887, printed in the 

 Archaeological Journal, Vol. xliv., p. 271, and another read at 

 Dorchester in 1897. 



Failing health compelled him to reside almost entirely at 

 Rushmore, which made him all the more appreciate his Larmer 

 gardens, to which he had devoted so much labour and expense, 

 and which were a centre of attraction to the neighbourhood. 

 A portion of Rushmore Park was set apart for an interesting 

 collection of rare animals with the object of acclimatising them, 



