100 Casterley Camp Excavations. 





25, 26 Iron objects— a hasp of a lock ? and binding of small casket 1 Found 

 in burnt layer at entrance to rectilinear enclosure. 



27 Iron object of doubtful use ; found in praefurnium in ditch No. 6. 



28 Iron object of doubtful use ; found in burnt layer at entrance to 



rectilinear enclosure. 



29 Iron object of doubtful use found 2ft. deep in ditch No. 2. 



30 — 35 Iron nails. A large number of iron nails of various shapes and 

 sizes were found in the upper strata of the ditches only, and on the 

 surface. These include mushroom-headed hob-nails (Fig. 7), flat- 

 headed ( Figs. 30, 33, 34), triangular-headed (Fig. 32), and round- 

 headed nails (Fig. 31). Fig. 33 has been bent intentionally, and may 

 have been used as a key. 



36 Iron knife blade ; found on surface of ditch No. 2. 



Plate IV. 



1 Jar of brown ware, with polished " leathery " surface. It has six holes 



drilled through the side after baking. Height lOfin., rim diam. 

 4fin., base 4jin. Found in fragments scattered at the bottom of 

 ditch No. 2. 



It has been suggested that this vessel, and others that have been 

 found with holes in their sides, may have been used as bee-hives. In 

 Kashmir and other parts of India earthenware vessels are used as 

 such ; they are inserted from the inside of the huts into the walls 

 made of mud, or of sun-dried bricks — and only the few small holes 

 made in the vessels for the bees to pass in and out of are visible from 

 the outside. It is the only suggestion that seems to explain at all 

 the use of holes in this position through the sides of vessels. 



2 Jar of grey ware (base missing), surface slightly polished ; ornamented 



with waved line round the shoulder faintly impressed with a blunt 

 tool. Height about 10in., rim diam. Sin. Found in fragments 

 scattered in the bottom of ditch No. 2. 



3 — 4 " Bead- rim" bowl of brownish grey ware, surface polished from rim 

 to shoulder, rough below. There are four holes through the base, 

 bored after baking. Height 8in, rim diam. 6jin., base 3f in. Found 

 in fragments scattered in the bottom of ditch No. 2. 



A good many of the bases, or fragments of bases found at Casterle 

 had holes through them. It is said that they served as strainers 

 separate honey from the comb. The "beehive pot" (Fig. 1) if 

 such it is, is interesting therefore as evidence that the inhabitants | 

 were not entirely dependant on wild bees for their honey. 



5 " Bead-rim " bowl (imperfect) of polished ware, the paste black through- 

 out and full of particles of white flint. Height, 8|in., rim diam. 5in.,J 

 base 4£in. Found in fragments in the bottom of ditch No. 2. 



It is noticeable that the blackest of the " bead-rim " pottery is often; 

 freely mixed with particles of flint, etc., and it seems that the) 

 presence of the grains may make the paste more porous and thus 

 more readily acted upon by the fuming or dipping process, by 

 which the ware was rendered black. 



