ON THE AGE OF STONE CIRCLES. 183 



Woll burnt outside to rim ; bl.ack and slacker bak«d inside, suggesting tliat the 

 pot was inverted and fire could only reach outside ' (C. Reid). 



Found quite at the bottom of the burnt material, at a depth of 7'5 ft. below 

 the surface of the silting. 



From the Chalk Rubble. — (Bone Objects). 



223. Implement formed from a rib-bone of ox (or horse?), measuring 

 335 mm. (13^ in.) in length on the outer curve. It is cut to a rounded and 

 somewhat bevelled termination at one end, and the surfaces are rather 

 smoother in this part than elsewhere. At the butt-end it is also slightly 

 polished. 



Found against the solid chalk wall at the west end of the fosse near the 

 bottom, and at a depth of 24'5 ft. below the brink. 



225. Implement formed from part of a rib-bone of ox or horse ; what remains 

 measures 221 mm. (8| in.) in length, but it is obviously broken at the butt-end. 

 It is cut to a rounded termination at the complete end, but more pointed than 

 in the case of No. 223, which it closely resembles. 



Found in a similar position to No. 223, at a depth of 25 ft. below the brink. 



Two similarly-worked ribbones were found in Cutting VIII., in 1911, on 

 the bottom of the fosse. (Report, 1911, Nos. 171 and 176.) 



240. Small, slender, animal bone, broken off at both ends, but quite smooth; 

 probably the shaft of a pin. 



Found on the bottom of the fosse at the west end of the cutting. 



VI. Picks and other Remains of Red-Deer Antler, found in the Fosse 



(Cutting IX.). 



As in former seasons, picks of red-deer antler were found in some 

 numbers in the chalk-rubble, and especially near and on the floor of 

 the fosse. Picks of this type have also been found in Britain in con- 

 siderable numbers at the Grime's Graves,^" Cissbury, and Maumbury 

 Rings, and in smaller quantities at many other places, generally with 

 prehistoric remains, but occasionally on Eoman sites. ^^ Portions of 

 antler picks — one piece being smoothed and charred at the handle-end — - 

 have recently been found in the great artificial mound at Marlborough 

 College. Two very large antler picks found in the excavations at 

 Avebury in 1894 '^ were disposed of in April 1915 at the Meux sale at 

 Dauntsey House, near Swindon, and were acquired by the Wiltshire 

 Archaeological Society for Devizes Museum. 



Twenty numbered specimens were found in the fosse in 1914, as 

 follows : 



188. Parts apparently of two antlers (nr if parts of the same antler thev do 

 not joinV One consists of the greater part of the beam, part of the remaining 

 tine reduced to a stump. The other part consists of the crown of an antler of 

 three points, the lower one of which is considerably bevelled and worn at the 

 tip. 



Found in the mixed siltinor in the N.W. part of the cutting, and 7-3 ft. deep 

 below the brink of the fosse E. of the causeway. 



189. Pick, well worn, consisting of the beam and burr of a shed antler, 

 having only a verv slightly developed indication of a bez-tine. The trez-tine 

 has been reduced to a stump (more projecting than in the majority of the 



" 244 antler picks were found in the excavations at the Grime's Graves in 

 1914. 147 of the specimens had also been used as hammers. 



" Records of such finds have been brought together bv Mr. Horace Sanders 

 in ArcJifPoIofjla, Ixii. 101. and by Mr. W. G. Clarke in the Tteport on the. 

 Excavnfions at Grime's Graves. 1914 (published 1915), p. 142, in which, 

 however, no mention of the Aveburv specimens is to be found. 



" Brit. Assoc. Report, 1908, p. 404. 



