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Knap Hill Camp. 



While the long mound was built of ordinarily fine chalk rubble, 

 the round one was found to have been entirely built up^of larga 

 lumps of chalk loosely piled together. Immediately under the 

 centre of this mound, at a depth of 5ft. Sin. from the surface, a 

 circular fire hole was found in what appears to be an old turf 

 line. In the fire hole was a quantity of wood ashes, and in and 

 around it pottery, some of which is unquestionably Eoman.^ It 

 will be seen in the section that this did not rest on undisturbed 

 ground, but that a circular excavation had been made, filled in,, 

 and apparently covered with turf at some period before that, when, 

 the first hole was made (Section C). 





Section C. 



C 

 E 



A— Surface. B— Large lumps of chalk, forming' mound. C— Old Excavation. D— Fireplace. 

 E— Undisturbed Chalk. 



The pottery found in and around the fire place is certainly 

 Eoman, but when or why the great heap of chalk was piled over 

 it, or when or why the original excavation was made, there'was 

 no evidence to show. 



A section was also cut across the long mound at D in the hope 

 of finding additional evidence as to the age of the mound. On the 

 old turf line and in the material of the mound nine pieces of pottery 

 were found that may be either Eomano-British or Late Celtic. 



Here an interesting discovery was made of two circular holes or 



pits that had been dug out below the old ground level before the 



^ Fragments were found of certainly ten, and perhaps eleven vessels, in- 

 cluding five pieces of Samian ware, representing at least two vessels, and 

 pieces of rims of two very large pans resembling in shape a modern bread 

 pan, of thick red pottery, stained on the outside to a light brown or buff 

 colour, with a lattice pattern tooled over the surface ; they are too im- 

 perfect for measurement, but the bodies could scarcely have been less than 

 20in. in diameter. Pieces of a similar pan were found in the T-shaped 

 fire place on the dais. 



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