By A. D. Passmore. 583 



This find is of importance as bearing on the date of the hill fort 

 itself, and on the whole the available evidence goes to prove that 

 Liddington Castle should be placed in the class of Late Celtic 

 camps, with the possibility that it may be somewhat earlier. As 

 regards the position of this and other similar camps, one is bound 

 to come to the conclusion that in such an exposed spot, 911 feet 

 above sea level and swept by the N. and E. winds, these people 

 could not have lived without the shelter of the great bank and the 

 stockade which doubtless surmounted it. 1 



We have here the dwelling place of a few families of a rude 

 people leading just the life of the modern natives of Central Africa, 

 who lived in huts with floors of burnt clay and sand, made cloth, 

 planted corn, ate their flocks of goats or sheep, and cattle, and still 

 used some stone weapons, and hunted with flint-tipped arrows. 



The whole of the finds here described are in the writer's collection, 

 who hopes at some future date to thoroughly excavate the site. 



Description of Plates. 

 PLATES I. II, & III. (Pottery.) 



1. Light brown ; pattern triangular or square, of hatched lines. Well 



made. Paste fine. 14 2 mm. 



2. Rim ; triangular pattern of alternately scored and punctured dot lines, 



dark reddish brown. 10mm. 



3. As the last, much finely powdered flint, punctured dots. 



4. Part of shoulder of incurved rim ; triangular pattern of punctured dots 



below line of chevrons on shoulder. Colour as last. 16mm. 



5. Dark red ; triangular pattern of scored lines. 10mm. 



€. Rim ; brought up to thin edge from inside, edge slashed, bead below 

 similarly treated, thick coarsely made, light brown. 20mm. 



7. Grey-brown, thin and well made ; pattern of grooved lines. 12mm. 



8. Chocolate ; triangular design of punctured dots confined by scored 



lines. 14mm. 



9. Shoulder ; pattern of curved lines, light brown. 10mm. 



10. Dark red ; circular design, punctured dot line within scored lines. 14mm. 



11. Light brown ; angular pattern of punctured dots. 13mm. 



12. 13. Incurved rim with slashed edges, black inside, red coated, 



roughly made and full of large pieces of flint. Appears to have been 

 brushed over while wet. 11mm. 



1 In the hill fort of Uffington, seven miles to the east, MarthvAtkins 

 found proof of a formidable stockade having at one time surmounted the 

 ramparts. (See Thurnam and Davis, Crania Britannica.) 



3 The numbers after the descriptions refer to the thickness in millimetres. 



