EARLY MAN 



delicate cunres resembling the conventional forms often given to the 

 vine, in others with a species of punctured festoon, and in another case 

 v^^e find an ornament made up of irregular lozenges. The shapes of 

 two of the pots which were capable of restoration are curious. They 

 may be said to resemble a handle-less saucepan with a somewhat grciUcr 

 development of the rim. 



Another example of this kind of pot decorated with an ornament 

 which approaches the returned spiral ornament even more closely than 

 does the ornament from Mount Caburn, was found quite recently at 

 Elm Grove, Brighton. This has a slightly fuller rim than the Mount 

 Caburn pots, but otherwise it is strikingly like them in form. It is 

 clearly a special form of pot, and perhaps it may be a purely Sussex 

 type. In the Caldecott Museum at Eastbourne there are three speci- 

 mens of Late Celtic pottery, one of which found at Seaford has a 



Pottery found at Mount Caburn. 



pedestal and is decorated with cordons in a way that reminds one of the 

 Aylesford and Essex Late Celtic forms. 



In the Long Man of Wilmington,' a gigantic human figure cut 

 out on the hillside, Sussex possesses an ancient monument comparable 

 with the Giant at Cerne Abbas, Dorset, and the various White Horses 

 to be found in different parts of the country.^ The figure is that of a 

 man 240 feet in height, and may be well seen from the railway near 

 Polegate. Originally it was cut out rather slightly in the ground, but 

 the outlines have been in recent years clearly defined in white brick, 

 and the Long Man may now be seen from considerable distances. He 

 holds two staves, each 230 feet long. An attempt has been made by 

 some writers to show that these hillside figures were associated with 



1 Stusrx Arch. Coll. iv. 63-4, and xxvi. 97-II2 



2 Mr. Charles Dawson, F.S.A., informs the writer that on a steep part of the Downs near the 

 Cuckmere Valley below Hinover, there is a very rough cutting or outline resembling a horse, wliith 

 was periodically 'scoured' by the country folk until a few generations ago. 



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