522 TRANSACTIONS OF SECTION H. 



Under 2g feet of this in one place was found (7 feet below the road) a peat- 

 stained radius of horse tallying exactly with that from pit-excavation, strongly 

 stained with iron phosphate, also a third metacarpal index 6-5. In this glacial 

 shingle Pleistocene mammalian remains occur. These [as identified at the Brit. 

 Mus. (Nat. His.)] are Elephas antiquus (tooth), Hippopotamus (tooth), Bos 

 primigenius (tooth, ramus, metatarsal), Cervus megaceros (?) (fragments). 

 Worked flints were also found. 



Attention is drawn to the identity in size and proportions of the skull of the 

 Stortford Horse and to the Grimaldi Horse described by M. Marcellin Boule, to 

 the Starnberger Horse figured by Naumann ; also the limb-bones with those from 

 Spandau figured by Nehring (op. cit). 



Measurements on the flat give for the frontal index : — 



Skull of the Stortford Horse 59'1 



Skull of the Grimaldi Horse ..... 59'1 



Skull of the Starnberger Horse .... 59'8 



Tracings made of the enamel of the grinding surfaces of p.m. 4, m. 1, and 

 m. 2 of the Grimaldi Horse apply in every detail to the Stortford specimen. 



7. Report on the Excavation of a Prehistoric Site at Bishop's Stortford. 



See Keports, p. 131. 



8. A Roman Fortified Post on the Nottinghamshire Fosseway: A Pre- 

 liminary Note on the Excavations of 1910 and 1911. By T. Davies 

 Pryce. 



Excavations have recently demonstrated the existence on the Nottinghamshire 

 Fosseway of a post, situated midway between Ratae and Lindum, which has 

 been identified with the Margidunum of the second and third Antonine 

 Itineraries. The remains are approximately trapezoidal in shape, the east and 

 west sides being parallel, with an internal area of six acres and a measurement 

 over all of twelve acres. The Fosseway passes through from S.W. to N.E. over 

 and through the southern ditch and rampart of the original earthwork. 



Excavations of 1910 and 1911. 



(a) Trenches near the Southern Rampart. — Roofing, coloured wall-plaster and 

 isolated tesserce were found, but no foundations of houses. Superimposed pave- 

 ments furnished evidence of three occupations. 



(b) Section through Southern Rampart. — Rubble work on a foundation of 

 undressed stone packed in clay was found. The greatest height of the rubble 

 above the undressed stone was 3^ feet and its basal width 10 feet. No outer or 

 inner stone facing was found. 



(c) Section through the Southern Fosse. — The broad Southern Fosse was 

 found to be composed of three ditches, angular in form, separated by two clay 

 platforms. The distance from the centre of the inner to the centre of the middle 

 ditch was 30 feet; from the centre of the middle to the centre of the outer 

 ditch was 34 feet 6 inches. The counterscarp consisted of a thick layer of thrown 

 up clay. 



Finds. 



(1) Pottery. — (a) Rude fabric made of clay mixed with pounded shells and 

 ornamented with primitive incised markings, found below the layer of typical 

 Romano-British discovery and almost certainly Pre-Roman and Celtic. (b) 

 Samian Ware or Terra Sigillata. Many examples of first century fabric as 

 Form 29 with winding scroll decoration, a beautiful fragment of the plain dish 

 Form 18, and a fragment of the rare and early Form 15. The second and 

 probably the early part of the third centuries were represented by numerous 

 examples of Form 37, with the usual styles of decoration. Plain forms referable 

 to the second century were also abundant, (c) Romano-British and other ware.— 

 Fragments of amphorae and mortaria were numerous, also much dark and grey 



