72 Casterley Camp Excavations. 



At the spot shown on plan PL X. a skeleton was found 2ft. deep, in 

 a grave that had been dug across the ditch and nearly at right angles 

 to it. It had been dug partly in the silt of the ditch and partly 

 through the undisturbed chalk of the bank, showing that the 

 grave-diggers were indifferent to, or unaware of the existence of the 

 ditch. The skeleton lay face downwards, with the head to the 

 north-east, and the arms doubled up under the chest: from the 

 hips upwards it rested on the silt of the ditch, and from there 

 downwards in a narrow trench in the undisturbed chalk. Nothing 

 was found with the bones, except, on the floor of the trench two- 

 small sherds of pottery, one of New Forest and the other of Samian 

 ware. No doubt these were thrown in accidentally, in filling in 

 the grave; they only prove that it must have been filled in some 

 time during, or after, the Romano-British period. 



Hut Site (Plan of Inner Works Plate X). In the north-east corner 

 of the enclosure an irregularly-shaped excavation was found that ap- 

 pears to have been the site of a hut or dwelling of some kind, the 

 foundations of which were sunk 2£ft. below the surface. Somewhat 

 similar irregular excavations were found by General Pitt-Rivers at 

 Rotherley, and believed by him to be hut-sites, but here there 

 was no drain or pit to carry off surplus water as at Rotherley. 1 

 Pottery, including fragments of Samian ware, one piece stamped 

 with the name of Peculiaris; numerous oyster shells, a few cockle 

 and mussel shells ; iron nails, one blade of a pair of iron shears 

 (PI. III., Fig. 12) ; bronze tweezers, (PL I., Fig. 10); and an iron 

 hinge pin brooch of common Roman form (PI. II., Fig. 2), were 

 found in this excavation. 



"Within the enclosure at lb it was found that a rough paving 

 of pieces of sarsen stone, hard chalk, and flints, had been laid 

 down, covering impartially the surface of ditch No. 2 and the ad- 

 joining ground; the extent of this, however, was not ascertained. 

 A similar rough paving was found below the turf covering ditch 

 No. 6, at Section X., at the elbow of ditch No. 7, but there again 

 its whole extent was not found. 



1 Excavations, II., 53 — 4, 113, section V. 



