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it, ends in a big outer ditch in the same maimer in which it had 



started from out of the ditch of the enclosure. 



Ditch No. 7, issuing from the opposite side of the entrance to 



the rectillinear enclosure, runs for a short distance almost parallel 

 with No. 6, it then turns sharply in an opposite direction, and 

 meeting ditch No. 8 at nearly right angles, ends in it. 



Ditch No. 8 starts as a flanking ditch at the entrance to the 

 enclosure A ; after running for some distance in an easterly direction 

 it turns sharply to the north, and intersecting the cross ditch No. 

 9, eventually ends in ditch No. 6. It will be seen that between 

 its intersection with No. 9 and its end in No. 6 there is an entrance 

 causeway giving access into the enclosure B, and thence through 

 to the rectilinear enclosure. It appears that ditch No. 8 was 

 made solely for the purpose of forming this enclosure, B, while 

 ditch No. 6 must have been made for some other reason, and only 

 incidentally forms part of its boundary. Ditch No. 7 might equally 

 well have been made as part boundary of either of the two irregular 

 enclosures, and there seems to be nothing to show which of these 

 two enclosures was made first. 



The short ditch No. 8a serves no obvious purpose; it runs out 

 of No. 8, both ditches being of the same depth, 6ift. ; at its end 

 the ditch No. 8a shallows up to 4|ft. It appears that at this 

 spot a fire had been lit in the ditch, and among the ashes a very 

 perfect iron hammerhead (PI. VII L, Fig. 1), together with several 

 pieces of iron slag, were found. 



Ditches Nos. 9, 10, 11. 



Of what use ditch No. 9 could have been it is difficult to see, 

 as it does not form part of any enclosure, nor can it be said to 

 divide any definite area of the camp, and it can only be conjectured 

 that it was of use in conjunction with some features that have 

 now vanished. At its eastern end it was found to shallow up and 

 to run out to nothing in a manner resembling that of the sunken 

 way while it maintained its usual depth right up to its western 

 extremity. 



