By Mr. and Mrs. B. H Cunnington. 79 



Skeleton No. 3 lay close up to the wall at the back of the pit, 

 backbone twisted, lying partly on its side and partly on its back, 

 face upwards, hands down, knees slightly bent. Skeleton No, 4 

 was close to the wall opposite to No. 2, on its right side, hands up 

 to the face, and the knees drawn up. 



Pit 3. 



7|ft. deep, 4|f t wide at top. Sides perpendicular. The filling-in 

 of this pit was like that of the others, of clay, with about 1ft. of 

 black material and wood ash at the bottom. In this pit a ledge 

 cut out in the side may have served as a step. Some fragments 

 of " pit " pottery were found among the filling-in, and more pieces 

 of the same kind of pottery, some flakes and burnt flints, frag- 

 mentary bones of animals, two fossil echini that had been burnt, 

 and a small sandstone hone, at the bottom of the pit. 1 



The Inner and Outer Works Contemporary. 



The question arises whether the outer entrenchment and the 

 inner works are of the same period, and constitute parts of a single 

 scheme, or whether they were designed independently of each 

 other ; and further there is the possibility of the different parts of 

 the inner works being themselves of different dates, and planned 

 without reference to each other. 



That the inner and outer works were not made wholly without 

 reference to each other appears from the ditches Nos. 6, 10, and 11, 

 and it is clear that the rampart was erected after they had been 

 dug, for No. 10 and 11 ended under the rampart at D and H, and 

 No. 6 ran right under it into the outer ditch at B. 



It seems incredible that three separate ditches should end in 

 this way in the outer entrenchment unless that entrenchment had 

 been planned in reference to them, or they to it. It seems, there- 

 fore, that, although the outer entrenchment was actually made 



1 The fossil echinus has been noticed in pits on Wilsford Down and in 

 those at All Cannings Cross. The pit-dwellers seem to have had some fancy 

 for them. 



