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than that of those buried in the long barrows. They continued 

 to use the long barrows for further interments up to and 

 after the Roman occupation. In the skulls found in the 

 village interments the average proportion of breadth to length 

 rises to 74; and there are a few quite exceptional skulls, one 

 or two having the proportion of 82, and one or two that of 

 only 68. These are results which might be expected from an 

 admixture of the two races, the long-headed and the round- 

 headed. 



Returning now to Eggardun Hill, we find that among its 

 interesting features are a number of pit-dwellings indicated by 

 circular depressions. Of these there are at least 123 within the 

 area of the main camp. There are none in the neighbourhood 

 outside, which shows that they were constructed later than the 

 ramparts. Five of them were carefully examined by Dr. 

 Colley March and myself in 1900, and the results of the 

 explorations are fully described in Vol. XXII of our Proceedings. 

 The most interesting feature disclosed by our excavations is 

 shown in a diagram there given. The top of the chalk down 

 is here covered with a patch of clay in \vhich a pit-dwelling 

 would quickly become a pond. So, beneath the floor of the 

 hut there was a drainage system consisting of a hollow filled 

 in with coarse flints through which the rain would drain away, 

 exactly as it is expected to do in all the houses now built in 

 Parkstone, where it is not allowed to be taken into the sewers. 

 Professor Boyd Dawkins has some words about these dwellings. 

 He says : " Each of these depressions had a wall of wattle 

 and daub, and, fortunately, some of them got burnt, so that 

 you can see little fragments of burnt stick which have the 

 marks of the vertical uprights of the hurdles on which the 

 clay was plastered. They were round and absolutely identical 

 in general construction with the circular huts built upon piles 

 and platforms in the Glastonbury marshes." In some places 

 there is evidence that these dwellings were used after the 

 Roman conquest, but on Eggardun we found no trace of post- 

 Roman occupation. Nor was any trace of metal found. The 

 finds, indeed, were meagre. This negative evidence, however, 



