Ixxii. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Age Barrows and Camp on Handley Down, and Martin Down 

 Camp, &c. In his Address, General Pitt Rivers referred to his dis- 

 covery of Paleolithic flint-flakes and cores in situ in the stratified 

 gravels of the Nile Valley, at Korneh, near Thebes, in which the 

 ancient Egyptians cut their tombs, and which " must have been 

 deposited long previously to the hardening of the gravels, the 

 erosion of the channel, and the excavation of the tombs, on the 

 sides of which some of the flakes were chiselled out." 



General Pitt Rivers then referred to his examination of the 

 South Lodge Camp, an entrenchment of about half an acre in ex- 

 tent, of the Bronze Age, succeeded either by a Roman occupa- 

 tion or British during the Roman period. The ditch is 6 feet 

 deep, its lower half appears to have been silted up before the 

 Roman occupation occurred. The relics found in the rampart 

 of the Camp were of the Bronze Age, and contemporary pottery. 

 The General considered the Handley Hill entrenchment to be 

 also of the Bronze Age or early Roman. His description of the 

 excavation of Wor-Barrow and ditch is, perhaps, the most 

 instructive and valuable part of the volume. After the removal 

 of the material of the Barrow, which covered the old surface-line, 

 an oblong trench was exposed, cut into the solid chalk, and 

 enclosing an area 93 feet long by 34 feet wide, with traces of 

 wooden piles, which appeared to have fixed into the ground, 

 before the ditch had been dug, and soil thrown over the primary 

 interments, which were six in number, covered by a low mound 

 of earth, in an oblong space 8 feet long by 3^ feet wide ; three 

 of them were crouched, the other three were put in together 

 without sequence, the long bones being laid out parallel one 

 to the other by the sides of the skulls. General Pitt Rivers 

 suggests they were the bones of relatives, exhumed and 

 re-interred together. Although no relics were found to deter- 

 mine the period of these primary skeletons, the bones afford 

 sufficient evidence that they were Long-Barrow people of the 

 Stone Age. Of the six skeletons four were of the stature of 

 4ft. io-2in., 4ft. iiin., 5 ft. 07111., and 5ft. r 9 m. The other two 

 were comparatively tall people, being 5ft. y-zin. and 5ft. 9-4111, 



