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were about 1 foot apart. IN'os. 64, 65, 66, and 67 are some of the upright 

 stakes from these wicker walls. To the north of the last-mentioned wall, 

 there were two piles, or rather butts of piles, about 1 foot long, the 

 lower ends of which were quite flat, the flattened surface being appa- 

 rently cut by some chopping implement. They rested on the surface of 

 the bed 'No. 1, in Section 2. These and the double wicker wall did not 

 go far up into bed No. 2 (same section), and the tops of them and the 

 wickerwork wall were all charred, as if the structure had been burnt 

 down. The same remark applies to the southern wicker walls, and to 

 a wicker wall hereafter to be mentioned ; but in these two latter cases, 

 if they were destroyed by fire, they were not burnt down so low as the 

 double wall or the two piles, as they were over 2-5 feet high. On the 

 north of the double wicker wall, in beds, Nos. 3 and 4, Section 2, were 

 numerous small heaps of ashes, and near some of them were flat stones, 

 that evidently had been used as hearths, as they had all the appearance 

 of being burnt by fire. The basket flooring was made of hazel rods, from 

 1 inch to -J inch in diameter. Some were squeezed quite flat by the 

 pressure of the overlying mass, and were so rotten that a specimen of 

 the basket work conld not be procured. 



The second excavation ran north for 30*5 feet from the north end 

 of the last described. It is marked on plan as B. The following section 

 was measured at its north end : — 



Section No. 4. 



Feet. Inches. 



6. Soil, peat, and stones, with a few bones, 1 6 



4 Marl and peat, with a quantity of bones, 2 7 



3. Heather sods, 0 9 



2. Chips of wood and peat, with basket flooring near the base, 0 4 



1. Heather sods, 1 7 



6 9 



"When bed No. 1 was cut through, the water spouted up, and pre- 

 vented my observing what was underneath. The heather sods had not 

 knitted together, but were quite fresh looking, like those described in 

 Section No. 3. Here we were able to measure their original size, which 

 was about 1 foot square by 5 inches thick. 



In bed JSTo. 2 the chips were nearly all deal, and in it, slightly ob- 

 lique to the length of the hole, ran a horizontal oak beam, that was 10 

 inches wide by 2-5 deep ; on this lay the basket flooring.'^* 



At about 6 feet from the north end of the beam, there was an up- 

 right morticed into it ; the upright was 2 feet 2 inches high. The south 

 end of the beam ran into the bank of the excavation, and was not fol- 

 lowed. Upright stakes ran south from the upright ; they seem to have 

 been part of some sort of partition. One of them, No. 63, is in the col- 

 lection. 



* On comparing Sections Nos. 3 and 4, it will be seen that the beds above the basket 

 flooring are very similar, and of nearly equal thickness. 



