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found with Nos. 12 and 13, and other flakes and chips, large quantities of 
charcoal, burnt stones, &c., near foot of interior slope of rampart, about 
two feet from surface. There were evident signs of a large fire at this 
spot, around which the flakes were scattered. 
No. 19. Good black flint flake, unweathered; found further in the 
rampart than the last, but also near abundant traces of charcoal, burnt 
stones and ashes. 
No. 20. Flint celt, somewhat roughly chipped; about 5 inches long, 
and 1:5 inches broad, with worked chisel-like ends, and one side chipped 
into an acute edge, the other being obtuse. Perhaps not finished, but 
unweathered. Found well beneath the body of the rampart, about 4 feet 
down (see infra, p. 250). 
Nos. 21, 22, and 23. Five flint flakes, with ‘ bulbs’ and two or more 
‘facets,’ found well under the crest of the rampart, and considerably above 
the old surface line. 
No pottery was found in the second section, although every possible 
care was taken that even the smallest fragments should not be passed over. 
General Pitt-Rivers examined the ground and the objects obtained, but 
he and the other members of the Committee were of opinion that farther 
evidence should be sought for before any safe conclusion could be arrived 
at as to the period of thecamp. A third cutting was therefore commenced 
on August 14, the spot selected being a good piece of rampart near the 
south-east corner of the camp. This cutting was 8 feet wide, but as the 
escarp was thickly covered with large trees, and the form of the ditch had 
been determined in the second section, it-was not considered necessary to 
incur the expense of carrying the trench beyond the crest of the rampart, 
about 26 feet from the base of the interior slope. The old surface of the 
earth was readily recognised, and was found to take a deep downward 
slope, so that the ‘made earth’ of the rampart, although externally 
apparently greatly denuded, was at least 6 feet thick at the deepest part. 
The following objects were found in this cutting (Plate III., fig. 3) :— 
Nos. 24 and 35. Flint ‘core,’ artificial splinter, and flake. Found in 
interior slope of rampart, about 15 feet from commencement of cutting, 
and about 2 feet from the surface. 
No. 25. Flint ‘ core,’ found in crest of rampart, about 18 inches from 
the surface. 
Nos. 27 to 32. Twelve pieces of pottery, varying in size from 25 inches 
by 1:5 inches to quite small fragments, all being about 0°3 inch thick. 
This pottery is of superior quality to that found in No. 1 cutting. It is 
thinner, harder, and is formed of a sandy clay with no grains of quartz or 
pebbles in the paste. The colour is dull reddish-brown on the surface, 
but a blackish tint obtains in the centre, the result of. imperfect firing. 
The curved form of most of the fragments shows that they belonged 
to circular vessels, and two of the pieces have ‘rims,’ somewhat rudely 
modelled, which project about 0-! inch. There are no signs of lathe 
turning, and the pottery was doubtless handmade. A black flint flake 
was found near No. 30, All the pieces came from well within the interior 
slope, about 2} feet from the surface of the rampart. 
No. 33. Two flakes, one with three or four ‘ facets ;’ and No. 34, a long 
slender flake, having good ‘bulb’ and many facets; all unweathered, and 
from well under the crest of the rampart. 
A fourth cutting was made longitudinally into the same piece of 
rampart, at the point where it slopes away into the morass, at the south- 
