62 Knap Hill Camp. 



the ditch. But by far the greater number are only a soft pale 

 grey in colour, and are rough and sharp to the touch like freshly 

 chipped flints. This, together with the suggestive way in which 

 these chips and flakes were found together in groups or clusters, 

 seems to prove that they were actually worked on the spot where 

 they were found. Lying in the chalk silt they have become dis- 

 coloured, but their sharp edges and roughnesses have not been 

 worn down. lu some cases it appears that they were worked on 

 the actual floor of the ditch, and in others after it had become 

 partially filled in. The worked bone (Fig. 12) was found on the 

 floor of the ditch. 



There was no sign of a fire ever having been lit on the actual 

 floor of the ditch, but in two places there had been a fire after it 

 had partly silted in, in one case to a depth of 4ft. and in the 

 other 3ft. 



Eelics from the Plateau Ditch and Eampart. 



Fragments of the skull and limb bones of an infant were found 

 imbedded in the ramparb of the plateau enclosure. 



Forty rim pieces and one hundred and sixty-three other pieces 

 of bead rim bowls, were also found under this rampart on the 

 old turf line, together with a particularly good specimen of 

 a sarsen muller, and a piece of another one of flint. 



A much rusted iron brooch was found 2Jft. deep in the ditch of 

 the plateau enclosure ; it is made out of strong iron wire, all 

 in one piece, like a modern safety pin. Of Late Celtic type 

 (Fig 4). It closely resembles an iron brooch found in the 

 Late Celtic rubbish heap at Oare, dating from circ. 50 B.C., 

 —50 A.D. 



Except fairly numerous fragments of pottery of the bead rim 

 bowl type nothing else was found in the plateau ditch.^ 



Eelics from the Surface of the Plateau Enclosure. 

 Not only within the plateau enclosure, but over the whole area, 

 between Knap and Golden Ball Hill, the ground is thickly strewn 



^ Twenty-one pieces of bead rim bowls were found in the last foot above 

 the bottom of this ditch. 



