204: REPORTS ON THE STATE OP SCIENCE. — 1915. 



were a bronze hook and eye bracelet, with dot and ring ornament, 

 found 1 foot deep, and a small bronze crozier-shaped object, possibly 

 the handle of a key, from about the same depth. 



Attention was next directed to the N. end of the stronghold, in 

 continuation of the work previously done there. The buried entrance 

 at the N.E. was further investigated. The position of this entrance was 

 marked down in 1912 by the discovery of a stone-lined post-hole, and 

 was further proved in 1913 by the excavation of a rock causeway 

 leading up to it between the ends of two ditches. The ramparts here- 

 abouts proved to be very ruinous, consisting of little more than rubble- 

 core, with their facing-stones and much of their bulk thrown down into, 

 filling and completely covering up, the ditches in front. When the 

 dihris which choked this entrance 5 feet deep was removed, it was 

 found to be a passage about 10 feet long and 10 feet wide at right 

 angles through the rampart. No side walls were found; presumably 

 they had been removed when the entrance was destroyed; 

 but four post-holes were unearthed, one pair at either eoid of the 

 passage. Of these, the one at the right hand on entering was 2 feet 

 deep and stone-lined, and the one on the left was cut in the rock 

 and shallower; at the inner end of the passage, the one on the left was 

 2 feet deep cut in the rock, and the one on the opposite side shallower; 

 in the deeper one charred wood was found. The roadway ascending 

 steeply through this entrance passage was of rock, the interstices of 

 which were filled in with small blue gravel. 



At some date subsequent to the destruction and choking up of this 

 entrance, another and a smaller one seems to have been cut through the 

 dibris. This was 10 feet long and only 4^ feet wide; portions of its 

 side walls of dry masonry remained standing ; two pairs of small shallow 

 post-holes were found cut in the rock, one pair at its entrance and one 

 pair half-way through its length. The roadway through this entrance 

 appeared to be made of large rough gravel, overlaid several inches 

 thick upon the rocky floor of the earlier entrance. At the inner end of 

 this later entrance, the side wall turned at right angles to the left and 

 was traced as a casing wall to the iiiner side of the rampart for some 

 12 feet ; at this point it was crossed by another curving-wall built at a 

 higher level. The only relics found upon the floors of these two 

 entrances were many broken bones of animals consumed for food, some 

 * pot boilers,' and some charcoal, in this as in other respects corre- 

 sponding with the lower floors of the S.E. entrance. At heights vary- 

 ing from 2 to 3 feet above the lower floor, however, or 2 to 2| feet deep 

 in the loose debris blocking the ruined entrance, fragments of Eoman 

 pottery, iron nails, Eoman glass beads, and two coins of Constantine, 

 all relics of the fourth century occupation of the stronghold, were 

 unearthed. At a little above the same level, some foundations of a wall- 

 facing ran across the outer end of the passage, showing that at this 

 period there was no entrance here. 



Following up the roadway into the hill-fort, some 60 square yards 

 of the interior area were next explored by careful riddling. Considerable 

 quantities of Eomano-British relics, including several coins, all similar 

 to those found close by in 1913, were unearthed. These relics were 



