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few fire-marked stones was obtained. However, failure on the height 
was more than compensated by success in the recesses of the wood 
below, and, after the repairing of damage done on the summit of Far 
Gregory, work was continued for two months near the Park Stile, 
with daily discoveries. Here a naturally defended glade, running up 
the hill-side into the heart of the wood, has been further fortified by 
the raising of a boulder-wall on the north side. Between this wall 
and the limestone cliff on the south, was a row of circular enclosures, 
through the middle of which the present path has been cut. At the 
base of the wood, running south, were more enclosures, bounded by a 
continuous wall irregularly arranged ; and on the north side were 
other walled-in divisions. In this portion of the field of exploration 
our finds were of a similar nature to the previous ones, but yielded us 
richer results. Especially noteworthy was the large quantity of 
British and Romano-British pottery discovered, some of the enclosures 
being littered with fragments of many varieties of ware, about 400 
specimens of which have been removed to the show-room at Grass- 
ington. Several portions of antler were obtained, some evidently 
intended for use, a fact made more probable by the later finding of a 
perfect little knife, whose blade (similar to those haftless knives found 
in Lea Green^ was fitted into an antler-tip. Mill-stones, potboilers, 
crushers, and other stones of use were unearthed and removed to 
a place of safety ; and one of the last, though certainly not the least 
important, discoveries was that of our first coin, a bronze Constan- 
tinopolis of Constantinus Magnus. The date of the Grassington 
remains had been provisionally fixed by Prof. Boyd Dawkins as circa 
350 A.D.,the coin found being struck a few years before that date ; 
hence, and from the similar nature of all the remains excavated, we 
may fairly accurately fix their historical position. It will be noted 
that the rnre occurence of actual Roman articles, and the primitive 
nature of the remains in general, preclude the idea of Roman occupa- 
tion of the district. This point was firmly insisted upon at the 
outset by Prof. Dawkins, and one result of the excavations has been 
to emphasize his conclusions. 
I have a real pleasure in recording the value of the services 
rendered by our two workers, Mr. Wm. Hill and James Birch, who 
