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Knap Hill Gamp. 



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Section D. 



A— Surface. B— Darker silt of plateau ditch. C— Silt Of old hill camp ditch. 

 D— Undisturbed Chalk. 



It will be seen that the plateau ditch comes to an end a few 

 yards beyond its intersection with the old ditch, and that the other 

 end of the plateau ditch disappears into the upper edge of the 

 scarp. It is hardly possible that there could have been an entrance 

 to the plateau enclosure between these two ends of the ditch be- 

 cause of the steepness of the bank at this spot, and why the ditch 

 should terminate like this, and what took its place as a boundary 

 between these two ends, there is nothing to show. 



The difference in the pottery found in connection with the old 

 €amp and that from the plateau enclosure is very marked. The 

 former is of the rudest description, freely mixed with large grains 

 of flint, badly baked, hand-made, soft, and friable. It was found 

 associated with patches of flint chips in the ditch, showing that 

 the people who used this pottery also used flint for their tools and 

 weapons, if indeed they were not actually in the Neolithic stage 

 of culture.^ (See relic tables below.) 



On the other hand the pottery found in the plateau ditch and 

 under the plateau rampart is all well made, well baked, wheel- 

 turned pottery, of a type known as that of the " bead rim bowl." 

 Quantities of identical pottery have been found elsewhere in the 



^ Pottery of this type was found in the ditch of the main entrenchment 

 on the bottom of one of the isolated sections of the ditch on the shoulder of 

 the hill at S.S. ; on the floor of the scarp at B.B. ; and in the two pits 

 underneath the long mound on the plateau, at P.P. 



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