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and the following measurements can %£ obtained : Antero-posterior 

 diameter 30 mm., transverse diameter of the shaft 21 mm., latitudinal 

 index 700. Depth 4'5 feet in the mixed silting. 



170. Complete shed antler of red-deer, of medium size, the brow- 

 and be(z-tines broken off ; total length in a direct line 22 inches. There 

 is no evidence of its having been used as an implement. Found on the 

 floor of the fosse near the south margin. 



171. Eib-bone of an animal (smaller than ox), cut to a rounded 

 termination at one end, where it is very smooth and slightly bevelled 

 from one side. Found on the floor of the eastern half of the fosse, 

 against the north face. 



172. Crown of an antler of red-deer, with three points or surroyals, 

 which bear evidence of some wear, and may have been used as a rake. 

 Found on the bottom of the fosse near No. 171. 



173. Fragment of the base of an antler of roe-deer. Depth five feet 

 in the mixed silting. 



174. Small antler of a very young red-deer. Depth 5*5 feet in the 

 mixed silting. 



175. Broken pick of shed red-deer antler; the bez- and trez-tines 

 removed, the brow-tine broken ; evidence of hammering is seen on the 

 back of the burr. Depth 14*8 feet in the chalk rubble, near the floor 

 and close to the western margin of the cutting. 



176. Broken pick formed from a shed antler of a large red-deer; 

 maximum circumference of the beam between the two lower tines, 

 161 mm. ; the bi'ow-tine has its point missing; considerable evidence of 

 hammering is seen on the back of the burr. Also part of a rib-bone, 

 probably of ox. Found on the bottom of the fosse on the west margin 

 of the cutting. 



A few other fragmentary animal bones were found on the bottom of 

 the fosse, among which pig was identified. 



Flint flakes were perhaps not quite so numerous as in Cuttings I. 

 and II. (1908-09). 



Some of the wood specimens, animal remains, and shells have not 

 yet been examined. 



V. General Remarks on the Relics discovered. 



In the last chapter it is shown that no fragment of mediaeval pottery 

 was found at a greater depth than three feet, and that all were situated 

 well within the deposit called ' surface silting.' The objects and pottery 

 of the Boman period were all found between the depths of 3'5 feet and 

 4 - 5 feet in the upper part of the 'mixed silting.' In the lower part 

 of that deposit the flint knife, No. 154, was found at a depth of 5'7 feet, 

 the hollow scraper of flint, No. 166, 5 depth 4'6 feet, and the prehis- 

 toric pottery, Nos. 163 and 167, already described, depth 5'8 feet and 

 5 feet respectively. It is seen, then, that the lowest object of the 

 Boman period and the highest pieces of prehistoric pottery were in 

 relative levels, only six inches apart. Bassing to the ' fine mixed 



5 This may, perhaps, belong to the ' fine mixed silting ' deposit at its highest level. 



