222 MORTIMER: HABITATION TERRACES OF THE EAST RIDING. 
No. 2. This terrace is a little to the east of that described 
above, and though partially obliterated at the time of our research it 
seemed to have its broad end cut across by the old British entrench- 
ments which encircle the village of Fimber. 
Nos. 3 and 4. These are on the S.E. hill-side of Rain Dale, a 
few feet one above the other. They had been a long time under the 
plough, and were partly effaced. An excavation, which was made 
across them, showed an accumulation of soily matter, in some places 
H to 2 feet in thickness, at the bottom of which lay pieces of animal 
bone, and several fragments of a kind of coarse pottery, much 
resembling the dark kind rarely found whole, but not unfrequently in 
fragments, in British barrows. 
Nos. 5 and 6. These are also together, on the north side of the 
railway, between Fimber and Burdale. They are cut obliquely by an 
old filled-in hollow-way (fig. 1), one of six found radiating from the 
village of Fimber. The great age of these two terraces is shown by 
their being intersected by the hollow-way, as this contained fragments 
of Roman pottery in all the three sections which we dug across it, 
but in no case was the pottery found lower than half its depth, indi- 
cating that this road had been disused and half filled up by slowly 
accumulating debris, before the pot-sheds found their way into it. 
This is strong evidence that it was constructed in pre- Roman times, 
while the terraces are still older. Outside the area immediately sur- 
rounding Fimber are many similar terraces on the sides of the valleys, 
some being in fine preservation. One of these is well shown on the 
hill-side, close by the south side of the road from Raisthorpe to 
Thixendale. It is cut across by a chalk pit, and the section thus 
obtained clearly shows that the form of the terrace is due to material 
having been removed from its upper to its lower side, and there can- 
be no doubt of its artificial construction. Two fine terraces, one 
above the other, curve round the N.E. end of Brubber Dale, about a 
mile-and-a-half to the north of Pridaythorpe. They are about ten 
yards above the valley bottom, and face the rising sun. Again there 
is a series of three terraces, pleasantly situated on the western hill- 
side of Wad Dale, about one mile N.N.W. of Weaverthorpe. At the 
time of my survey, Oct. 5th, 1883, the east end of Wad Dale plantation 
