578 Liddington Castle (Camp). 



described. This fact as regards the Wiltshire downs has not always 

 been kept in mind, and objects found together have been too hastily- 

 placed in the same periods. Everything hard and of sufficient 

 density has a tendency to sink to the chalk below, where relics of 

 all ages lie side by side. 



In describing the various objects I propose placing them all 

 provisionally in the early part of the Late-Celtic, or Early Iron Age, 

 although some of the pottery may, perhaps, be earlier. 



Pottery. 

 Ill plain fragments. 

 21 „ rims. 

 10 ornamented rims. 

 25 „ pieces of body of vessels. 



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Of the 35 fragments of ornamented ware there are 



31 bearing patterns composed of straight lines, or lines 

 of dots. 

 4 with patterns composed of curves or circles. 



Unfortunately the sherds are so small that nothing absolutely 

 certain can be said as to the shape of the pots to which they 

 belonged, but they seem to have been small vessels of about 6 or 7 

 inches high, of proportionately large diameter, with flat bases, anc 

 in all cases hand-made. The paste was mixed with powdered flint, 

 and some larger pieces of that material, 1 while in colour the 

 fragments vary from red to black, but are generally of a dark 

 reddish brown. There has been little done in the way of surface 

 polishing. In shape (as far as can be judged) they are : — (A) 

 Globular, with a constriction towards the top from which rises 

 plain expanding rim. 2 (B) Globular, with a' shoulder and a flat 

 incurved rim. (C) Straight-sided, with a plain or slightly beadec 

 rim; but the " bead rim " proper of Late Celtic date does not 

 occur. 



1 In one case the interior of a straight- sided pot has been purposely covered 

 with very small flints. 



2 Like a " Drinking Cup " with about two inches cut off the top edge. 



