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dig'ging- progressed. There were varying depths 

 before the ssub-soil was reached — the greatest was 

 five feet; all were through the debris from the rampart. 



There were no signs of walls or remains of any 

 kind of dwelling on this spot. The finds, however, 

 clearly indicate that it was the site of a camping 

 place. There was much charcoal and sling stones in 

 abundance, also many fiagments of shillet with 

 holes which had apparently been punched by means 

 of sharp-pointed picks or some similar tool. 



Two and a half feet below the present surface, 

 when sinking through the debris of the rampart, two 

 small fragments of pottery were found. These are 

 buff coloured outside, whilst the inside is slightly 

 coated with a yellowish glaze. 



At a depth of four and a half feet the undisturbed 

 sub-soil was reached and, resting on this, lay a nest 

 of sixty four sling stones, two fragments of much 

 rusted iron, three sherds of rude pottery, one piece 

 blackened inside and out and possessing some orna- 

 mentation of the usual early type together with 

 curved and straight intersecting lines. — (See figure 1.) 



Nearer the entrance the excavation shallowed and 

 the undisturbed bottom was reached at a depth of 

 two feet. Here thirty sherds, large and small, were 

 found together with a few ounces of cinders impreg- 

 nated with oxide of iron, some nodules of mineral 

 which appeared to have been exjjosed to heat, and four 

 water- worn flat pebbles, one of which had been used 

 as a grinder. 



The pottery, rude and probably hand-made, repre- 

 sented the remains of two vessels. The ornamenta- 

 tion on some of these sherds is similar to that borne 

 on pottery of the bronze age type. (See figures 

 2 and 3.) One sherd was jierforated and through 

 another hole an iron rivet was inserted. (See figure 

 No. 4.) A nodule of burnt clay was also found in 

 this excavation. 



