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found in this cutting. At ' 3 ' on plan and section, at .•> depth of 36 cm. 

 a rudely chipped pointed stone implement (?. spear-head), having a plano- 

 convex cross-section, length 61 mm., greatest width 44 mm. • at ' 6 ' a 

 worked flake of black flint with flne secondary chipping at a depth of 

 15 cm ; and at ' 7,' at the same depth, a chipped end-scraper of greyish 

 flint : this implement is of the long narrow variety, with a notch on 

 both sides. At Section 2, about 4™-88 to the west of the north-western 

 causeway, another cutting, 3™-05 wide, was made through the ditch and 

 the rampart. The vallum svas chosen at this point, as it presented an even 

 surface, and being comparatively low and narrow it would not entail so 

 much labour in removing. No relics were found in this cuttin"-, except 

 a small doubtfully artificial stone scraper picked up on the ' old surface 

 line ' (4 on plan and section). The absence of relics in this section was 

 very disappointing. ' The cutting, however, was of value in showino' the 

 material out of which the vallum was constructed and has been plotted in 

 section, on the scale, of 60 to 1. Measuring from the crest of the ramparb 

 downwards, the soils, A:c., occurred as follows : — (1) Turf and turf mould 

 15 cm. ; (2) rough pieces of thin-bedded limestone mixed with a little 

 mould, 98 cm. ; (3) band of small pieces of chert with a little mould 

 9 cm. ; (4) yellowish-brown clayey mould, 15 cm ; (5) 'old surface line' 

 of dark brown mould, 9 cm. ; (6) light-yellowish brown sand. The 

 greatest depth of the ditch in this section was 76 cm., and it was 

 filled to the bottom, below the tui-f mould, with mould mixed with 

 small pieces of chert. This part of the ditch having been laid bare the 

 I'e-excavalion of the ditch was continued from this point in the direction 

 of the north-west causeway, the hard stone sides of which were found 

 As stone relics were more numerous here, and the bottom of the ditch 

 was far more irregular than in Sections 1 and 3, surveys were made in 

 various directions, and have been plotted to a scale of 60 to 1. The 

 average depth of the ditch here was 91-5 cm. from the surface and the 

 nature of the filling was the same as in Section 1. The followinw is a list 

 of the finds in this part, called 'Ditch Extension, Section 2.' The 

 numbers tally with those on the plan and in sections. 



5. Small flint flake, with fine secondary chipping ; depth 21 cm 

 8. Stone scraper, with bevelled edq;e, 36 mm. in width • denth 

 36 cm. ' ^ 



10. Outside flake of flint, with secondary chipping in two places • 

 depth 24 cm. ' 



11. Flint, chipped along the edge ; depth 24 cm. 



12. Two pieces of chert, with secondary chipping (?) ; depth 43 cm 



13. Flint flake, with serrated edge ; depth 46 cm. 



14. Small narrow scraper of flint, worked all i-ound edcjes • depth 

 43 cm. 



15. Large flint scraper, of pale bluish-grey colour, with chipped 

 bevelled semicircular edge and pointed end ; plano-convex cross-.«cction • 

 depth 70 cm., near the bottom of the ditch. ' 



17. Six flakes of white flint, mostly of exceptionally large size found 

 together, in the ditch at a depth of 82 cm. from the surface, on a led^^e 



' General Pitt- Rivers once cut four sections, 10 feet wide, through the rampart 

 and ditch of a Bronze Age encampment without finding a relic wonh mentionino- • 

 but he did not despair, and forthwith commenced to dig away the rampart and 

 ditch all round, being rewarded by finding bronze implements and much pottery 



