68 ARBOR LOW EXCAVATIONS IN I9OI AND T902. 



("31" on plan, section, and plate VI.). At "32" on plan 

 and section (No. 32, plate VI.), a small, elongated, narrow 

 black chert end-scraper, worked on both sides, was found, 

 depth i-6 foot (49 cm.) ; and at " 33 " a black chert flake, 

 depth i-8 foot (55 cm.). 



The average depth of this little ditch beneath the surface 

 was 3 feet (91 cm.); the width at top, 8 feet (2-44 m.). 



Summary. 



During the four weeks that the excavations were in progress, 

 no metals were discovered, nor any traces of fictile ware that 



Fig. 11. Circular flint knife found at Arbor Low (Lucas Collection, 

 British Museum). J linear. 



could be assigned to the date of the construction of Arbor 

 Low. Six sections were cut through the fosse, 85 feet (26 m.) 

 of fosse in all ; two cuttings were made through the vallum ; 

 four patches of trenching of varying dimensions were dug in 

 the interior; and of the small dyke to the south-south-west, 

 7 feet (2-13 m.) of rampart and 19J feet (5-94 m.) of ditch 

 were examined. The number of relics found* has certainly 



* The relics have been presented by the British Association to the British 

 Museum, and the writer's Model of Arbor Low, fully described and figured 

 in "Man,'' October, 1903, No. 84, p. 145, will also probably find a home 

 there, 



