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generally rather thicker than, but about the same length, as an 

 ordinary brick. In the thickness of the walls at irregular intervals 

 of from 2Jft. to 4-Jft. post-holes were found. Probably the walls 

 were of timber, or of mud and timber, supported by these upright 

 posts. No hearth or signs of flooring were found. Immediately 

 outside this building there was a heap of rubbish composed of 

 lumps of chalk similar to those in the walls, a few pieces of sarsen 

 :Stone, and a few pieces of modern brick- Under this heap was 

 part of a dish of yellow glazed seventeenth century ware. It is 

 probable that these foundations are those of the house, or hut, 

 inhabited by the seventeenth century folk, and that they partly 

 destroyed it, perhaps for the sake of the timber, when they de- 

 serted it. 



Adjoining the rampart on the south side of the plateau enclosure 

 were the rectangular outlines of what seems to have been another 

 building or enclosure of some kind. These foundations were more 

 decayed than those in the corner by the dais, and consisted of a 

 turfy bank under which were a few laid blocks of chalk. 



Koman pottery was found under the foundations, and in the 

 turf within the walls, with a few small fragments of seven- 

 teenth century ware. At the time these walls were laid the 

 rampart of the plateau enclosure, on which they rest, must have 

 been already in its present ruined state, but whether they date 

 from the seventeenth century, or earlier, is uncertain. 



The seventeenth century people must have destroyed much, 

 valuable evidence of the earlier occupations, and in this light itj 

 -can only be regarded as a misfortune that they should have chosen- 

 this site to live upon. It seems a little curious that they should 

 have chosen such an exposed and waterless spot ; they were per- 

 haps squatters, or shepherds, who only came here for the summer 

 months. 



General Conclusions. 

 The Old Hill Camp. 



There seems little room for doubt that the old hill camp at 

 Xnap is of very great antiquity. That it had been abandoned, 



