100 EXCAVATIONS AT MAUMBURY RINGS. 



255. Iron nail, embedded in highest part of wall. 



260. " Third brass " coin of Constantine I., circa A.D. 335 ; a 

 poor specimen of the Gloria Exercitus type ; depth 2ft. below the 

 larger group of stones. 



268. Small globular glass bead, painted red ; in rammed chalk. 



274. Fragment of shale armlet, on level of inner trench ; another 

 piece. No. 334, found in filling-in. 



288. ChiiDped flint implement, weathered white, of Neolithic 

 type, length 3^in. (Fig. 2) ; in rammed chalk, depth 3ft. 



294. Fragment of red Samian ware, ornamented ; depth 2"5ft. 



296. Oval hammer-stone of bi-convex section, 3in. in diam., 

 smooth on both faces and bearing evidence of hammering round the 

 edges ; in rammed chalk, depth 5"5ft. 



297. Part of a Romano-British bowl of black burnished ware, 

 with bead rim ; in inner trench, depth 6ft. 



298. Fragments of red Samian and other ware ; in the rammed 

 chalk of arena-floor, depth 4' 7ft. 



299. Fragments of R.B. pottery, red on faces, black internally ; 

 depth 4' 85ft. on arena-floor. 



300. Greater part of a pot-cover, of blackish-brown ware, with 

 funnel-shaped perforated knob (Fig. 2) ; the burnished surface faintly 

 ornamented with triangles filled with crossed lines, and comparable 

 with designs found in the Lake-villages in Somerset. Depth 4'8ft. 

 on rammed chalk arena level. 



301. Large iron ring, corroded and distorted ; over the inner 

 trench, depth 4"8ft. 



302. Bent bronze pin, perhaps of a brooch ; on rammed floor. 



303. Part of an iron spear-head with sides hammered up to form 

 a socket ; found as No. 302. 



335. Small iron arrowhead (Fig. 2), with rivet-hole on one side 

 of the hammered up socket, length 51mm. ; found in filling-in. 



v.— Cutting XXI. 



The Prehistoric Shafts (Plates III., IV., and V.). 



[See Cutting X., Report, 1908 ; Cutting XV., 1909; Cuttings 

 XII. Extension and XX., 1910.) 



We must now turn to the someAvhat puzzling shafts of 

 which eleven have been uncovered at the mouth, five having 

 been completely re-excavated (Plan, Plate I.). The first was 



