598 A Mediaeval Earthwork near Morgan's Hill. 



others yellow glaze, and some are unglazed, of a rather coarse 

 ware mixed with pounded flint, but have also the same sand 

 that is mixed in the paste of the glazed ware. Certainly 

 most of. this pottery, and probably all of it, is mediaeval. 

 Three small iron nails. Bones of animals. 



Second foot below turf : — Five pieces of pottery of the 

 same description as above. 



Third foot below turf: — Rounded handle of jug or pitcher, 

 of red ware with traces of green glaze ; 5 inches in length. 

 This was found actually 3 feet deep from the top of the 

 turf and within 8 inches of the bottom of the ditch, and 

 is so unmistakably mediaeval that it affords good evidence 

 of the period at which the ditch must have been open. 

 Fragments of the rim of a cup or basin with greenish-yellow 

 glaze ; found with the handle. 

 A small number of flint flakes were found in the various 

 sections, but these can have no particular significance, for what- 

 ever the date of the enclosure, these flints may have been lying 

 on the surface at the time of its construction. 



A chemical analysis has been made of three pieces of pottery : — 

 (a) The fragment found on the bottom of the ditch of the outer 

 enclosure, (b) A piece not glazed, but probably mediaeval, from 

 the first foot below turf in ditch of the inner enclosure. (c) 

 A piece with traces of glaze, undoubtedly mediaeval, found with 

 the handle near the bottom of ditch of inner enclosure. 



The results of («) and (c) are so nearly identical that the ware 

 must almost certainly have come from the same source, and have 

 been made of the same clay. This affords additional evidence 

 to show that the two ditches were open at the same period, and 

 that, therefore, the two enclosures are of the same date. 

 The analysis is as follows: — 



(«) 



Silica (Si0 2 ) 58-2 



Alumina (Alo0 3 ) ... 26'25 



Ferric oxide (Fe 2 3 ) ... 11"2 

 Traces of calcium and magnesium compounds are also found 

 in (a) and (c). 



(i) 



(c) 



55-2 



57"45 per cent 



38-2 



24-4 



68 



11-6 



