464 REPORT — 1902. 



27 cm. (31 on plan and section) : this implement, which was formed 

 from an outside flake, has a pronounced and straight dorsal ridge, 

 the section across tlie scraper being triangular. At 32 a small elongated 

 harrow block chert end-scraper, worked also on both sides, was found, 

 depth 49 cm. ; and at 33 a black chert flake, depth 55 cm. 



The average depth of this little ditch beneath the surface was 91 cm., 

 the width at top 2™-44. The chief photograph of this digging taken from 

 the south was unfortunately a failure, but the four sections have been 

 levelled and plotted, scale 60 to 1. 



Summary. — During the four weeks that the excavations have been 

 in prof^ress in 1901 and 1902 no metals have been found, nor any traces 

 of fictile ware that could be assigned to the date of construction of 

 Arbor Low. In all, six sections have been cut through the fosse, with 

 extensions of Sections 2 and 4 to expose the solid sides of the northern 

 causeway, 25'"-94 of fosse in all ; two cuttings have been made through 

 the vallum ; four patches of trenching of varying dimensions have been 

 excavated in the interior, the primary idea of which work was to en- 

 deavour to find holes in which some of the stones could have stood ; and 

 of the small dyke to the S.S.W., 2'"-13 of rampart and G metres of ditch 

 have been examined. The number of relics found has certainly been dis- 

 appointing, and yet, on the other hand, Arbor Low, not having been 

 a habitation, and, from negative evidence, appearing not to have been 

 a place of sepultui-e in the Stone Age, I do not know that more relics 

 could be expected under the circumstances. Nothing Roman has been 

 found, except three small fragments of what appears to be Romano- 

 British pottery, just below the turf in the interior. As is well known, 

 flint scrapers are frequently found in association with Bronze Age and 

 Roman remains, but here they are found deep in the silting of the fosse, 

 only in association with other rude stone implements and chipped flint 

 arrow-heads of Neolithic form. The majority of the implements found 

 appear to the naked eye to be of chert, which is only what one would 

 expect, seeing that it is native, and an excellent substitute for flint, 

 which had to be brought probably from some considerable distance. No 

 polished implement or fragments have been discovered. Chipped celts 

 and fragments are conspicuous by tlieir absence. 



Sir John Evans states that Mr. J. F. Lucas had a roughly chipped 

 celt, 10 cm. long, from Arbor Low but no record of its gisement appears 

 to have been preserved.^ Sir John also mentions the finding of a rare 

 form of circular knife '^ at Arbor Low in 1867, likewise in Mr. Lucas' 

 collection ; and in addition he figures a finely chipped flint blade,^ 15 mm. 

 lono-, found at Arbor Low in June 1865 (Lucas collection). Jewitt has 

 enirraved the same implement full size ; ^ and this, with the circular knife 

 already referred to, as well as a smaller knife of the same kind, 4*7 cm. 

 in diameter, is now in the British Museum. 



Arbor Low is therefore of such precise age as the barbed arrow-head 

 may be assigned to, it having been found on the bottom of the deepest 

 portion of the fosse. For reasons before stated, it has been shown that 

 the barbed form of arrow-head does not necessarily and exclusively lead 

 one to assign an earthwork in which such an arrow-head is found to the 

 ■end of the Stone Age, or to the transitional period between it and the age 



3 



Ancient Stone Implements, 1872, p. Qi. ■ Op. cit., p. 306. 



OjJ. cit., p. aiS, fig. 207. ' Grave 3found;<, fig. 155j 



