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which resemhles a thick pin with a flat perforated head. 

 {Plate XNl.Jig. 2.) It is If inches long, and is coated over 

 with green carbonate of copper ; it is very probably the 

 tongue of a fibula or similar ornament. This enclosure has 

 been excavated out of the rock, and is indeed a kind of pit 

 dwelling, which may have been covered with a roof; but if 

 not, the shelter afforded by the excavation would not be 

 unimportant in this high region, exposed to tempests of wind, 

 rain, and snow. 



Hut circles. Some of the hut circles were explored by 

 trenches cut through them, and others were entirely cleared ; 

 in all, evidences of occupation were discernible. Their usual 

 size is from 24 feet to 30 feet in diameter ; but one of them 

 is only 18 feet. 



One circle 30 feet in diameter, had an eastern entrance 

 and was flagged with flat porphyry stones in the same 

 manner as the huts at the Greaves Ash Oppidum ; another 

 of the same size was found rudely paved with small stones ; 

 and in another near to the Fortlet, charred wood was found 

 on the floor at the depth of 4 feet. 



The Ymt^Plate XV.^<7.c) which is 27 feet in diameter yield- 

 ed more distinctive relics ; broken pottery along with charred 

 wood was found on the rude floor at the depth of 15 inches. 

 Excepting one fragment, which is made of fine clay and is of 

 a bright red colour but soft and decomposing, all the pottery 

 is of the coarsest kind, rudely fashioned by the hand, as 

 much as half an inch in thickness, and black throughout, 

 though having a thin film of reddish brown on the exterior. 

 One fragment is the upper part of a jar-shaped vessel and 

 has a groove running round a little below the rim. {Plate 

 'KYI. Jig. 3.) This pottery, as Avell as that from another of 

 these hut circles, is similar to the pottery obtained at Greaves 

 Ash Oppidum, and I doubt not is Celtic or Ancient British. 



In circle {Plate 'XY.Jig. a) which is 26 feet in diameter, frag- 

 ments of the same kind of coarse pottery were found at the 

 depth of 18 inches, and along with them portions of two oak 

 rings or armlets; one of them is of a dark brown colour and still 

 retains a bright polish on its surface ; it is flat on the inner 

 surface and rounded on the upper ; and it had been 10 inches 

 in circumference. {Plate XVI. fig. 4.) The other ring 

 {fig. 5) is smaller and more slender, being only 7| inches 

 in circumference, of a pale brown colour and destitute of 

 polish. The upper stone of a quern was also discovered 

 here ; it is different in form and rock from any previously 



