298 Mr. Tate on the Celtic Town at Greaves Ash. 



was rudely paved. In this hut a piece of opalised glass, part 

 of an armlet, was found. 



Besides the circular huts in the open area, there are others 

 of a smaller size, and some too of a diiferent form placed 

 against the rampart and even built into it. These were much 

 obscured by heaps of stone and earth. Several of them have 

 been cleared by the excavations ; in most, charred wood was 

 found and in two of them fragments of pottery. One of these 

 chambers, c, Plate 4, on the north side of the principal gate- 

 way, is of a rectangular shape, being 12 feet by 10 feet, with 

 an entrance from the gateway by a very rude narrow passage ; 

 this may have been a guard house to the gateway. Another 

 rectangular chamber, d, Plate 4, 70 feet south of this gate- 

 way, is partly within the rampart itself, and is nearly the 

 same size as the last, but more carefully formed, the walls 

 presenting a good example of masonry of the same kind as is 

 seen in the outer rampart. A wall, 2 feet 10 inches in thick- 

 ness, divides this chamber into two compartments ; and a 

 large flat stone, Avhich had apparently been smoothed by 

 human agency, stands against the east wall, and had pro- 

 bably been used as a seat. Within this chamber, a consider- 

 able quantity of broken pottery was found. In the round 

 dwelling e, Plate 4, near to this chamber, there were other 

 fragments of pottery, the most remarkable of which is part of 

 the bottom of a jar-like vessel of considerable size, which is 

 represented in Plate 9>,Jlg. 1. 



It seems strange, that while results of fire were discovered 

 in most of the chambers near to the rampart, none was dis- 

 cernible in the larger hut circles. Still, I think, fires have 

 been kindled in these huts also ; for we have distinct evidence 

 of fire in a similar hut circle in the Chesters camp ; and it is 

 not improbable, that owing to the thinness of the layer of 

 earth covering the floors of these huts, the long continued 

 action of the elements has obliterated the traces of fire as well 

 as destroyed other relics. 



A curious discovery has been made respecting fires by the 

 excavations. In the masonry exposed on the south side of 

 the inner rampart, an arrangement of three stones ap- 

 peared to form a drain ; this conduit-like opening, which is 

 represented in Plate 6, A, is 13 inches high, 14 inches wide 

 at the bottom, and 10 inches at the top. Further excava- 

 tions were made opposite to it within the rampart, and it was 

 found, that this conduit passed through the whole breadth of 

 the wall and opened into the hut circle g, Plate 4, which 



