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tracing the New Ditch, and in making this attempt Major 

 Willcock turned up a human lower jaw. The cutting was 

 extended to 14ft. by 4ft. to afford room for further investiga- 

 tion. 



Eventually the complete skeleton of a powerfully-built 

 man, fully adult, was uncovered in a grave of irregular form 

 hewn in the solid chalk, the natural surface of which was 

 l'5ft. below the turf (see Plate II.). The grave proper was 

 found to be 5 '2ft. in length at the bottom ; to the east was an 

 oblong cavity measuring 3 '4ft. by 2 -8ft. at the top, being a 

 little smaller at the bottom, which was reached at a depth 

 of 3 - 15ft. beneath the surface. The two parts of the grave 

 were divided by a ridge of chalk of slight relief and about 

 1ft. wide, the skull coming very near the west margin of the 

 ridge ; the top of the cranium was only 2 -4ft. below the 

 surface. The grave proper was 2- 15ft. wide at the top, and 

 1'Oft. at the bottom. Thus it is seen that the body was 

 pushed into a narrow grave, head to E., feet to W. The 

 right foot pressed against the solid end ; both legs were 

 drawn up at the knees. The head rested on its left side on 

 the bottom of the grave, facing S.S.W. The body touched 

 the sides of the grave at four points, viz., the left knee, right 

 hip, right elbow, and left hand. The length of the skeleton 

 measured in its cramped position, from the skull to the 

 toes, was 5'5ft. Mixed with the soil and rubble, filling the 

 grave, were a few flint flakes. 



An interesting discovery was made at the bottom of the 

 oblong cavity to the east of the skull and at a distance of 

 3'2ft. from it, viz., a complete globular vessel, No. 264 (Fig. 

 1), of dark brown pottery of a form and quality typical of the 

 Romano -British period, and of similar character to the pot 

 (No. 205) found in some fifty fragments (but now restored) 

 close to the right hand of the contracted human skeleton 

 met with in Cutting XVIII. in the N. entrance (see Report, 

 1910). The vase (No. 264) was found standing on its base, 

 as seen in Plate II. ; height 4ins., max. diam. nearly 4ins. 

 It is not lathe-turned ; the external surface is burnished at 



