250 EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBUBY KINGS. 



Over the prehistoric shaft the deposits were of the same 

 general character as elsewhere. On the level of the Roman 

 floor, or just above it, a slender piece of iron, perhaps a 

 stylus (No. 200), and part of the blade of an iron knife (No. 201), 

 were found ; also part of a slender armlet of Kimmeridge 

 shale (No. 195), and a canine tooth of horse (No. 197), with a 

 natural perforation at the root, and near that end a hole 

 bored laterally meeting the other perforation an object 

 probably worn by suspension as an ornament. Two frag- 

 mentary human bones were also discovered on the floor level, 

 viz., the upper left maxillary bone (No. 196), and a piece of 

 parietal bone of skull (No. 226). Pottery of the Roman 

 period was also collected. 



At an average depth of 5'7ft. below the surface on the S. 

 margin of the cutting, the Roman floor level was met with ; 

 it consisted of rammed chalk and appeared to have been 

 repaired from time to time, owing to the gradual but slow 

 subsidence of the loose chalk rubble in the mouth of the shaft. 

 A number of fragments of pottery (Nos. 198 and 199), much of 

 which was hand-made, but all apparently referable to the 

 Romano-British period, together with remains of ox, horse, 

 sheep, and dog, were found here, some scattered on the floor 

 level ; but the greater number of the relics were slightly 

 deeper both in and immediately below the rammed chalk 

 and they appear to have been deposited at the time the 

 Romans were constructing their amphitheatre. 



At the W.S.W. end, just inside the margin of the shaft 

 but within the true width of the Roman gangway, two circular 

 holes, presumably for posts, were discovered 5ft. apart ; 

 both of them were 0'55ft. in diameter ; one extended to a 

 depth of T4ft. below the gangway, where its diameter was only 

 0'25ft. Here, then, we have evidence of round posts with 

 tapering bases. One circular hole was previously found over 

 Shaft III. in front of the " den " (1909). 



We must now revert to the inner trench, the outline of 

 which we have already traced from the solid to the rammed 

 chalk over the shaft. The outer ledge of the trench ceased 



