222 MUKTIMKR : PKE-HISTORY UF THE VILLAGE OF TIMBER. 
Fimber, and are shown on the accompanying plan by blue patches of 
a wedge-shape, which in some instances are shown to be, as previously 
mentioned, intersected by hollow-ways. A description of these 
terraces will be found in Vol. ix.. Part 2, of the proceedings of this 
society ; whilst, probably, equally as old as these terraces, or even 
older, as we have not as yet, had means of determining the relative 
age of the two, are the tumuli in the immediate vicinity of this 
village. I will give an account of two of these to show the intimate 
connection they have had with the pre-historic inhabitants of this 
place. 
The first barrow is knoAvn by the old inhabitants as " Mill Hill" 
(which name, in this place, is probably a corruption of "Mall Hill" 
or " Moot Hill," as there is no tradition that a mill ever stood upon 
it) ; it measured 45 feet in diameter and about 2 feet in elevation, 
and was composed for the most part of unwaterworn chalk gravel. 
It is situated about a quarter of a mile to the west of Fimber, in a 
field called, by the old residents, " Mortar Pits," from its being the 
site of extensive old pits from which a small unwaterworn chalk 
gravel, mixed with pulverized chalk, was at one time obtained, and 
extensively used as mortar for building the stone walls and laying 
the floors of dwelling-houses and other buildings erected in the 
neighbourhood. 
We commenced to open this barrow first by a trench, 9 feet wide 
from its southern to its northern margin, and observed the ground to 
have been disturbed to a depth of 4 feet, from which we took frag- 
ments of mediaeval and other pottery, pieces of corroded iron, teeth 
and bones of animals, all mixed in great confusion with the substance 
of the mound fi'om base to apex. We next made a second trench, 
5 feet wide, adjoining and parallel with the west side of the first 
opening. Afterwards a similar trench was made on the east side of 
the mound, also adjoining to and parallel with the first opening. 
These, like the first excavation, yielded teeth and bones, potsherds 
and corroded iron, which were also dispersed throughout the excava- 
tion in a similar confused manner : whilst near the western margin, 
about 1 foot below the surface of the barrow, we took a small bronze 
buckle and a pretty little stud of the same metal, which had been 
