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subsequent history possibly lies hidden. The search for it, 
however, ought to be conducted with great care and circumspection. 
Unskilful hands might destroy those venerable remains of the 
past, leaving unsolved the problem they present. 
General Pitt-Rivers has recently communicated to the « Wilt- 
shire Antiquarian and Natural History Magazine” a most 
instructive account of the exploration of a camp at South Lodge, 
Rushmore Park. ‘The earthwork is of squarish form ; the lines 
of its sides are somewhat irregular, and the ditch was filled up by 
silting. He began by causing six sections, 10 feet wide each, to 
be cut across the ditch and rampart in different parts of the 
camp. In the first three of these nothing worthy of notice was 
found, showing, as he remarks, ‘“‘ what very false conceptions are 
liable me be formed by merely digging one or two sections in a 
camp.” He therefore determined to dig the camp all over. The 
ditch was an average depth of 6.6 feet, and could, from the 
nature of the soil with which it was filled, be divided into two 
halves, one above and the other below a three feet horizontal line. 
In the course of turning this soil over the workmen came upon a 
number of objects of the Bronze Age, most of them in the lower of 
the two halves, affording sufficient evidence that the camp was of 
that period. This opinion was further confirmed by the pottery 
found throughout it. Every fragment got below the three feet 
line of the ditch was British and pre-Roman, while of those dug 
out above that line nearly a half were of Roman age. Again, of 
a large number of fragments fonnd in the ramparts, all, with one 
doubtful exception, were British. In the surface of the interior 
space the pottery was of both kinds. The conclusion to be drawn 
from these facts is obvious. Tbe pottery in the rampart must 
have been deposited there when the camp was formed, and that 
in the lower half of the ditch during or soon after its first 
occupation. This pottery taken in connection with the Bronze 
Age implements clearly proves that the camp had been originally 
constructed in the Bronze Age. The Romano-British fragments 
in the upper half of the ditch and in the interior shows that it 
was afterwards either occupied for a time by the Romans or 
frequented by Romanized Britons. Care was taken so to carry 
out the excavations as to leave the camp in a condition that 
“ very much resembles what it was at the time it was in use.” 
I have referred at some length to the Rushmore Park 
excavations to show how much can be accomplished by a careful 
