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ON THE AGE OF STONE CIRCLES. YH 
111. Well struck narrow flint flake. Depth, 7 feet. 
132. Chipped flint knife of ovoid form, with a deep white patination; 
length, 89 millimetres; maximum width, 44 millimetres; the point appears 
to have been broken off. One face is quite roughly chipped; the other 
presents a smooth surface, although there are no indications of polishing; 
the cutting-edge on this face is finely worked. It was found resting on 
the bottom of the fosse at a depth of 17°8 feet below the surface of the 
silting, 8.E. part of the cutting. Close to it, also on the floor, were found 
the antler pick (No. 135), a piece of scorched flint, and a piece of charcoal. 
131. Small shed antler with brow- and bez-tines broken. The more 
perfect parts show no signs of wear, and it is uncertain if this specimen 
was ever used as a pick; the head shows no signs of hammering. Depth, 
17°8 feet on the bottom. 
133. Fine antler of slain deer, which has evidently been used as a pick; 
the bez-tine remains only as a short stump, but both the brow- and the trez- 
tine show considerable evidence of use, the former having a smooth rounded 
point, the finely developed trez-tine not being worn down, but the tip is 
extremely smooth. The grip of the handle is also smooth, as in No. 90 
found last year. The tool was also used for hammering on the side opposite 
to the brow-tine. Depth, 17-8 feet on the bottom. 
135. Pick, the shed antler being now missing beyond and including the 
trez-tine. The brow-tine is complete, showing signs of wear at the rounded 
point ; the bez-tine has been intentionally removed; the back of the burr 
bears indications of hammering. Found on the bottom of the fosse. 
136. Pick (present length, 204 inches) bearing considerable indications 
of prolonged use, the brow-tine being worn down to a length of 3 inches. 
The bez- and trez-tines remain only as stumps. The antler was shed. It 
is interesting from the fact that the base for a length of 4 inches from the 
burr is battered by hammering-to a very considerable extent, and un- 
doubtedly this tool had proved to be a most serviceable one. 
(b) Cutting II.—This cutting was pegged out last year also to a 
length of 24 feet, the W. margin being 69 feet to the FE. of the W. 
margin of Cutting I. Being nearer the road on higher ground, it was 
obvious there would be a greater amount of surface silting to remove 
than in Cutting I. Last year a length of 9°5 feet was dug to a depth of 
5°5 feet, and in the re-excavated material were found a number of shards 
of Norman and medieval pottery (B.A. Report, 1908, p. 410). It was 
at this point that we continued operations this year. The surface 
silting was found to extend to an average depth of 5:8 feet in the middle. 
Nothing worthy of particular record was found in it: but a number of 
shards of medieval date and even later, together with an Irish half- 
penny of George III and a seventeenth-century tobacco-pipe of clay, 
bearing the name of ‘ Thomas Hunt’ on the heel, were collected from 
depths varying from 1 to 3 feet. Another tray of pottery of similar 
character was preserved from depths of from 2 to 4°5 feet, and other 
Medieval fragments were found along the E. margin of the cutting at 
depths between 4°5 and 5:8 feet. The upper deposits had probably 
been disturbed, and further inquiries led me to believe that the surface 
of this part of the fosse had been cultivated up to the third quarter of 
last century. 
The next deposit—mixed silting, consisting of mould with a larger 
proportion of small pieces of chalk—extended to an average depth of 
10°3 feet in the middle. The lower 2 feet of this silting was found to 
be of a finer kind with a smaller admixture of chalk. 
Eight lots of Roman or Romano-British pottery were found in the 
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