BARROW-DIGGING AT MARTINSTOWN. Q 



surface mould would slowly be deposited as vegetable matter 

 decayed. This turf and turf-mould were found to average about 

 o'6 foot in thickness all through the cutting. The only relics 

 found in this layer were two fragments of Romano-British pottery 

 just under the turf, 2 and 3 on plan and section. In the chalk 

 rubble, only one relic of any importance was found, viz., a flint 

 scraper, at a depth of i^ foot (4 on plan and section). On the 

 "old surface line" at i, but outside the bounds of the internal 

 mound of mould, a large, white, flint scraper, was found. All 

 the other relics were discovered in the mound of mould and 

 on the old surface line on which the barrow was thrown up. 

 The chief flint implements found in this mound of mould 

 were : A saw, a hollow-scraper of a rare type, portion of a 

 chipped celt, a well-formed scraper, a knife, a fabricator or 

 flaking-tool, and an extremely fine borer. No polishing or 

 grinding was observed on any of the flint implements discovered 

 here. At 5 an important piece of pottery was unearthed, a 

 fragment of an early Bronze Age beaker; we say "early," in 

 accordance with the Hon. John Abercromby's recent papers on 

 the subject.* In patches near the centre of the barrow im- 

 perfectly-fired red clay was found. 



Detailed Description of the " Finds " found in the Cutting. The 

 following descriptive list represents the relics found in the 

 barrow, other than those connected with the interments. All 

 are marked on the plan, Plate I., and are projected into the 

 sectional diagram at their respective depths : 



Found outside the Mound of Mould. 



1. Large white flint scraper of horse-shoe form, with pro- 

 minent bulb and good example of conchoidal fracture ; depth 

 0*5 foot, on the old surface line outside mound of mould. 



2. Fragment of thin Romano-British pottery, red on outside, 

 greyish-brown on inside, depth 0*3 foot in surface mould. 



* Journal Anthrop. lust., Vol. XXXII., pp. 373 396: and Proc., Soc. Antiq. 

 Scot., Vol. XXXVIII., pp. 324410. 



