THE HILL-FORTRESS CALLEt) EGGARDUtf. 



On cutting carefully through the brown mould, there were 

 found, at measured depths : 



Fragment of typical neolithic 

 pottery, hand-made, imper- 

 fectly baked, with gritty 

 matrix 



A squared flint-core, together 

 with many flakes 



A flint knife, many bits of 

 charcoal, two more pieces 

 of pottery, some pebbles, 

 and a magic stone or 

 totem a large oval flint 

 pebble with two natural 

 hollows in it that look like 

 eye-sockets 



Beaneath general Beneath turf- 

 turf- surf ace. surface of 

 hollow. 



ft. in. 



3 3 



4 3 



ft. in. 



4 5 



No baked clay was found in any of the pits, nor calcined 

 stones. The pieces of charcoal were very small, as of burnt 

 twigs. Hence no fire had ever been kindled there. The char- 

 coal may have been blown in from the outside where cooking 

 may have been done ; or it may represent a last conflagration, 

 the final capture of the fortress. 



The dimensions of the other four pits do not much differ. 

 They are all given in the following mensural table : 



