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entrenchments, and obtained a similar section of this hollow-way 
extending under the rampart, clearly proving it to be the oldest 
of the two. 
No. 5, except being seen at times as a green strip in the growing 
corn, can only be traced by excavating, all surface configurations 
having been removed b}^ the often repeated tilling of the land. In 
tracing its position we took more than 20 sections, and the one 
nearest the village was taken a few yards north-east of the most 
easterly mere in the grass field close to the north side of the road to 
Sledmere, and its position on the 6-inch O.S., is near the letters " se " 
in "Manor House." From this point it runs eastwards close to the 
north side of the road to the bottom of the hill, a distance of one-sixth 
of a mile, or 1 inch on the 6-inch map, it then crosses the road obliquely 
and runs by the south side of the road, where it is cut by a chalk 
pit, from the opposite sides of which the sections, pi. ix., fig. 5, were 
taken ; it then gradually rises the hill-side, and on reaching a point 
opposite Fimber station, is crossed by the British entrenchments 
shown on the plan, but now almost equally obliterated. From here 
it sweeps round " Cole Nab," and was found extending one-sixth of 
a mile, and probably might be traced further. 
No. 6 rises obliquely, the ground sloping to the south, cultiva- 
tion has removed all surface configuration of these trenches, but at 
times they are distinctly visible in the maturing crops by a line of 
deep green corn growing on it, see plate ix., fig. 6, one of three 
taken, in all of which we found fragments of Roman, or Romano- 
British pottery, but in no case below half the depth of the trench. 
This sunk- way possesses additional interest by crossing two narrow 
terraces, (a paper on these terraces is given in vol. ix.) see fig. A, 
plan 2. At this point an excavation was specially made across this 
covered-way, and one of the terraces at the point of intersection, 
with the view of proving, as far as possible, which was the oldest, 
and all the appearances of our section seemed to show that the 
terrace had been made the first. 
Nevertheless, the hollow-way was proved to be of great age by 
the finding of fragments of hard Roman pottery in all the three 
excavations, but in no case below half its depth, indicating that this 
