188 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1915 



Pottery. 



194. Two fragments of fairly well-baked black pottery, containing a good 

 proportion of small grains of quartz-sand and some larger pieces measuring up 

 to 45 mm. in length. 



Found on the O.T.L., near the foot of the interior slope. 



195. Fragment of badly baked pottery, black on the inside and reddish- 

 brown on the outside ; it contains a small admixture of small quartz-grains. 



Found close to No. 194. 



202. Fragment of black pottery similar to No. 194, and perhaps part of the 

 same vessel. 



Found on the O.T.L., near Nos. 194 and 195. 



203. Eight small bits of pottery, and a fragment of iron pyrites. The pieces 

 belong to more than one vessel ; three of the fragments appear to be parts of 

 one pot only, 5'5 mm. thick. This ware is of a very coarse kind, some of the 

 pieces containing grains of quartz up to 6 mm. in length. 



Found on the O.T.L., near Nos. 194, 195, and 202. 



220. Twenty-two fragments of pottery of various degrees of coarseness — all 

 undoubtedly prehistoric (perhaps Neolithic), and belonging to vessels varying 

 in thickness from 4'5 mm. to 10'5 mm. They range in colour from a light 

 reddish-brown to black. Some of this ware consists of very soft paste with only 

 a small admixture of quartz-grains, but most of it is roughly made with large 

 grains projecting from the weathered surfaces of the ware; the largest grain of 

 quartz observable measures 4 mm. by 6 mm. 



They include one small piece of rim and two ornamented fragments belonging 

 apparently to the same pot, which had an encircling shoulder or ridge with a 

 hollow moulding probably below the shoulder, and similar in these features to 

 the pottery. No. 167, found in Cutting VIII., Fosse, 1911; the type is described 

 at some length in the writer's 1911 Eeport." As far as can be traced, the two 

 fragments are ornamented with oblique and parallel bands of punch-marks con- 

 sisting of lozenge-shaped clusters of four impressed oval dots. 



Mr. C. Reid, who has seen one of the coarsest unornamented fragments, 

 writes : ' Thin well-burnt pottery, not local ; the grit is all vein-quartz, and 

 suggests Bristol Coal-field.' 



Found on the O.T.L., at the N. end of the cutting under the berme (dividing 

 the vallum from the fossej. 



243. Six fragments of pottery, two being of thin reddish-brown ware and of 

 comparatively fine texture. The other pieces, which are thick — black on one 

 side and brown on the other^are very rude and of the coarsest possible 

 description, and contain an admixture of large quartz-grains; in one fragment 

 there are two pieces of quartz, measuring 4'3 mm. by 7'3 mm. and 4'2 mm. by 

 42 mm., which actually touch each other. 



The last described fragment has been seen by Mr. Clement Reid, who 

 writes : ' Not local ; paste black, and sandy, and full of splinters of grit, with 

 some large quartz-grains. The splinters look like Carl .nif erous Limestone chert, 

 rather than chalk-flint, but there is not enough material to make certain. 

 Perhaps from the Mendips.' 



Found in a similar position to No. 220, but a Utile nearer the interior slope 

 of the vallum. 



244. Two fragments of pottery, one of which is black on the inside and 

 brick-red on the outside, of fairly hard paste ami containing quartz-grains of 

 no grea,t size. The other fragment is of dark grey colour, fairly hard, and 

 containing small quartz-grains with a small admixture of larger grains. 



Found on the O.T.L., under the body of the vallum, 10-5 ft. N. of the 

 crest, depth 11"8 ft. 



251. A few small fragments of badly baked pottery similar to No. 195, but 

 apparently containing very little quartz-sand. 



Found on the O.T.L. 



IX. Animal Remains. 

 Only the more interesting specimens were preserved. Those found 

 " Brit. Assoc. Eeport, 1911, pp. 147, 150. 



