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at the junction of the two ditches (Nos. 1 and 7), between 2ft. and 

 3ft. deep, a layer of burnt material was found, covering an area of 

 about 12ft. square. It seems that a structure of some kind, that 

 had been built over the surface of the partly filled-in ditch at this 

 spot, had been destroyed by fire, and bad left this layer of ashes 

 to mark the site. In and about tins layer were found a number 

 of oyster shells and broken bones of animals, a quantity of broken 

 pottery, including fragments of two decorated Samian bowls of 

 form 37, with "free style" decoration, and one fragment stamped 

 DECMI.M ; about a hundred iron nails, some of them lame, 

 that had probably been used in the woodwork of the building; 

 pieces of concrete flooring, wall daub ; fragments of bricks and 

 tiles; pieces of quernstones ; two iron knife blades; and other 

 iron fragments; fragments of glass; bronze "viper" ring (PI. L. 

 Fig. 11); bronze stud or tag (PI. I., Fig. 6); and a bronze coin 

 of Claudius (see List of Coins, No. 1). In the ditch on the other 

 side of the entrance at a depth of between 4ft. and 5ft., scattered 

 ashes and mould were found, together with oyster shells, bones of 

 animals, a bronze pin without its head, and other decayed frag- 

 ments of bronze; two bronze ear picks (PI. I., Figs. 1 and 2), part 

 of an iron knife blade ; a half-finished spindle whorl of pottery ; 

 sherds of pottery including fragments of at least three Samian 

 bowls of first century type (one of form 29, and two of form 

 30), PI. V., Figs. 10, 11, and 12) ; and a coin of Nero (see List 

 of Coins, No. 2). This deposit seemed to be where rubbish had 

 been thrown into the ditch, and similar patches of ashes, &c, 

 were noticed in several places in the ditches, being quite distinct 

 from those places where fires had been actually lit. 



Bitch No. 2. The whole length of Ditch No. 2 was cleared out 

 to the bottom. A considerable quantity of pottery of the " bead 

 rim " type was found in it, nearly all of it in the lowest foot above 

 the bottom, there being above this a stratum with little in it, and 

 pottery of later Komano-British types in the first foot below the 

 surface only. Figs. 1 to 6, 10, 11, PL IV., Figs. 2, 3, 5, PL VI., 

 Figs. 1, 2, and fragments resembling Figs. 6, and 8, PL V; were 

 all found in the bottom of this ditch. 



