182 REPORTS ON THE STATE Of SCIEJfCE. — 1915. 



180. Ring of bronze, of bright-green colour due to patination. It consists 

 of wire of circular section, 2 mm. in diameter ; it is split transversely in one 

 place, where the ends appear to have been notched. In external diameter the 

 ring varies from 195 mm. to 20'5 mm. Probably Romano-British. 



Found on the S. margin of the cutting on the top of the solid chalk wall a 

 little below the surface mould. 



192. Fragment of coarse black pottery containing a large number of sinall 

 grains of quartz ; apparently Romano-British. 



Found in the Roman stratum on the south side of the cutting. 



193. Three fragments of Romano-British pottery of no special interest. 

 Found as No. 192. 



197. Whetstone consisting of an oblong piece of reddish-brown sandstone, 

 measuring 87 by 76 by 21 mm., very smooth on one surface and artificially 

 grooved obliquely. 



Found in the Roman stratum, depth 37 ft. below the surface. 



201. Rim piece of a Norman or mediaeval pot, ornamented on the inner 

 surface by a wave pattern common in the period. 



Found at the east end of the cutting, depth 1*5 ft. 



205. Greater part of a bronze bracelet of bright-green colour, consisting of 

 two strands of wire twisted, and tapering in size towards the ends. Of a 

 conunon Roman type, which appears to have had a hook-and-eye fastening. 



Found in the middle of the cutting in the Roman stratum, at a depth of 

 4*25 ft. below the surface of the silting. 



From the Mixed Silting. 



177. Chipped flint knife, length 39'5 mm., maximum width 175 mm., of 

 Neolithic type ; leaf-shaped outline ; slightly concave and unworked on one face ; 

 convex on the other face and finely chipped along both edges, the flaking 

 covering most of this surface ; white over the whole surface. 



Found in the fine mixed silting close against the S.W. face of the fosse near 

 the causeway, about 5 ft. below the brink. 



183. Point of a tine of red-deer showing transverse cuts at the larger end. 



Foimd in the mixed silting close to the chalk ' wall ' in the N.W. corner 

 of the cutting. 



187. Flake of dark bluish-grey flint, of irregular form, but having a consider- 

 able amount of secondary chipping. 



Found on the side of the fosse at the N.W., near the top of the mixed 

 silting. 



213. Three points of tines of red-deer, somewhat weathered; two of them 

 have indications of cutting near the tips. 



Found in the middle of the cutting in the mixed silting (which consisted 

 mostly of earth in this part), depth 7 ft. below the surface of the silting. 



231. Two fragments of prehistoric pottery, hand-made and of coarse type. 

 The larger fragment (12-5 mm. in thickness) is brick-red on the outside and 

 black inside, and contains some very large rounded quartz-grains and splinters 

 of flint, up to 6 mm. in lengtli. ' The chalk flint looks as if it had been 

 intentionally crushed and added to the paste for stiffening. The quartz-grains 

 probably came from Tertiary deposits. Samples of clay as coarse as this can 

 often be found over the chalk downs. It may have been baked by piling brush- 

 wood over the inverted pot. I see no sign of chalk or charcoal having been 

 used in this paste ' (Clement Reid). 



The smaller piece is black except for the outer crust, which is yellowish- 

 brown. ' It contains no crushed flint, and is apparently very slightly baked ' 

 (C. Reid). 



Found in the middle of the cutting at the bottom of the burnt material 

 previously described, and above the chalk-rubble ; depth 77 ft. below the surface 

 of the silting. 



No pottery was found in the fosse in 1914 at a greater depth than these 



fragments. 



252. Rim piece of prehistoric pottery, hand-made and of coarse type (nearly 

 as rude as the larger piece in No. 231). ' Soft paste stiffened with fragments 

 ot old pots and some grit. I cannot suggest origin without material to crush. 



