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of a vessel was found. This base is certainly that of a " bead-rim " 

 bowl, the ware being of a special quality of which these bowls 

 were sometimes made, its peculiarity being that it is rather soft, 

 black all through, and freely mixed with white particles. It is of 

 the same kind of ware as the large " bead-rim " bowl, PI. IV., fig. 

 5. It is quite unlike any of the earlier hand-made "pit" pottery. 

 It seems therefore clear that the rampart must have been thrown 

 up, at least on this side, after the " bead-rim " type of pottery was 

 being used on the site. 



Sections in Ditch of Outer Entrenchment. 



Section s were taken out to the bottom of the outer ditch at A, 

 B, Ca, D — D, at the western entrance, and on either side of the 

 northern entrance. On the bottom at A four fragments of thin 

 hard grey pottery were found that might be Romano-British or 

 earlier. A much-worn flint hammerstone, fragments of red deer 

 horn, and a few fragments of "thin red" Romano-British pottery 

 were found 2ft. below the turf. At B two fragments of bead rim 

 bowls were found 4|ft. deep. At Ca the depth as excavated was 

 5ft. ; Romano-British pottery of " thin red " quality was found 2£f t. 

 deep ; on the bottom a fragment of rather soft light red pottery 

 was found, that might be Romano-British or earlier. 



In a long section at D — D a number of fragments were found 

 throughout, chiefly of bead rim bowls; in the last foot above 

 the bottom a large fragment of a vessel resembling Fig. 2, 

 PI. IV., was found, part of a cover (PI. VII,, Fig. 4), and a 

 number of worn fragments, all apparently of one vessel, of 

 the same type as Figs. 6, 7, and 8, PL V. ; the vessel shown on 

 PI. VII. (top figure) also came from this layer ; it was found 

 in small worn and scattered fragments and has been restored. 

 2ft. above the bottom was found a small fragment of Samian ware 

 not much larger than a shilling, an oyster shell, and fragments of 

 " bead-rim " bowls. Neither of the other sections yielded pottery 

 at any depth. The evidence from the outer ditch is not of any 

 particular value, except in so far as it confirms that obtained from 



