50 ARP.OR LOW EXCAVATIONS IN T9OT AND T902. 



Messrs. Bateman and Isaacson, elated by their success in find- 

 ing the interment in the tumulus close tn, pursued their 

 investigations along the adjacent crest of the vallum at intervals, 

 shovelling the material inwards down the slope of the rampart. 



Excavations in the Fosse. 

 The excavations were begun on 8th August, T901, by making 

 a cutting, called Section 1, through the ditch, 12 feet (3-66 m.) 

 wide, close up to the south-south-east causeway. Roman 

 remains were looked for under the turf, but without success. 

 The only finds here were thirteen teeth of ox (" 1 " on plan 

 and section, fig. 3), strewn on the limestone floor at the bottom, 

 and at a depth of 5-4 feet (1-65 m.) pieces of red-deer's antler, 

 one piece 15 inches long (38 cm.), found resting against the 

 rock-side of the ditch on a solid vein of clay, running through 

 the limestone floor (" 2 " on plan and on the section fig. 3). 

 It appears probable that these fragments may have been the 

 remains of a kind of pick for loosening the previously fractured 

 limestone at the time the ditch was first excavated, in the 

 same manner as the antlers of the Stone Age in Grimes Graves 

 described by Canon Greenwell.* A deer's horn pick, figured 

 by Professor McKenny Hughes, was found at Horningsea in 

 1902. f Mr. W. Gowland, F.S.A., has recently figured a deer's 

 horn pick found at Stonehenge, and many splinters of antlers 

 of deer, one being embedded in a lump of chalk. J Such 

 implements could not have been utilised for splitting lime- 

 stone, but they would be useful in digging some of the looser 

 material. Fifteen fragments of antlers of red-deer were found 

 by General Pitt-Rivers at the bottom of the ditch of Wor 

 Barrow, Handley Down, Dorset, among Stone Age relics.§ 

 Nothing else was found in Section 1. Its greatest depth was 

 5-4 (1/65 m.). The filling consisted of turf and turf-mould 

 6 inches (15 cm.); mould mixed with small pieces of chert, 



* Journal of the Ethnological Society, ii. 426. 



f Proceedings of the Cambridge Antiquarian Society, x., plate ix. fig. 1. 

 % " Recent Excavations at Stonehenge," Archaologia, lviii., 49, 72, and 86. 

 § Excavations in Cranbome Chase, iv. 133. See also vol. iii. 135. 



