By Mrs. M. E. Cunning ton. 61 



pieces of sarsen stone, burnt flints, fragments of bones of animals, 

 including the jaw bone of a pig (4ft. deep), and fragments of ant- 

 lers of red deer, were found scattered all tbrougli the silt of the 

 ditch. A human jaw bone, rather small, and with worn teeth, 

 was found 5ft. deep, but no other human bones. 



The majority of the finds were in groups within a foot or so of 

 the bottom of the ditch. At one spot seventy-two flint chips were 

 found ('Gft. deep) all within the space of a foot or so. 



In a similar group were found forty-four flint chips, a round 

 hammer stone and a core of Hint, Ijurnt flints, a sarsen chip, a 

 flagmen t of pottery, and apiece of a large bone (ox ?). In another 

 group were two shoulder blades of a small ox (not of the same 

 individual), two flint flakes with good bulbs of percussion, other 

 broken flints, and apiece of pottery ; and again a flint scraper with 

 good secondary working, a rough flint hammer, and a flint core. 



The most interesting group contained some twenty fragments 

 of pottery, including rim pieces (Figs. 14-15), and two bosses or lugs 

 (Fig. 13), resembing those sometimes found on Bronze Age cinerary 

 ums, ox bones (including one horn core) representing at least five 

 individual animals ; forty flint flakes and rough pieces of flint, 

 a scraper wiih. secondary working ; a nodule of brown stained flint 

 that has been much used for rubbing and hammering ; a piece of 

 sarsen shaped like a split pear, with chipped edges, 4|in. x 3|in. ; 

 and a nodule of iron stone that has been used as a hammer. 



The bones were sent to Professor Mc Kenny Hughes who very 

 kindly identified them, and pronounced them to belong to a small 

 specimen of tlui Jh)^ t/fi/n's, or domestic ox. That they are cer- 

 taiidy not those of the Uos lonr/ifrons is proved by the one horn core 

 (Fig. 17) that fortunately was found in fair condition. This discovery 

 would seem to be of consi(lt'r;il)h3 interest in connection with the 

 vexed ([uestion as to the; \iiri()iis l)reeds of ox domesticated in y>vv- 

 RoniMii IJril.iiii. 



Th(^ condition of llic Minis found in [\\c ditch is interesting. A 

 very few of IIkmu aiv wcathtMvd (juito whiti^ liki^ surfact^ tlinls. 

 These are smoolli ami Muni to l\\(' (ouch, and appear (o hax'c been 

 undoubtctlly weatJicKMl ami worn Ix^'ore the}' were co\'ertHl u[) in 



