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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1918 
The illustration (PI. II.) shows the first and second trenches 
quite clearly. No decided opinion has been expressed as to the 
enclosure. All the burials were found several feet north of the 
second trench, and the reason for such an additional protection 
as the first trench does not seem clear. 1 
So far, the digging has not been continued on the western 
side of the opening sufficiently to observe whether the trenches 
are continued at right angles, but this may yet prove so, and 
afford the explanation required. 
My thanks are due to Mrs. Clifford for giving me every 
facility for visiting the spot. Whatever may be the meaning 
of these intrenchments, or the history of those who are buried 
within the area which they enclose, the opportunity of securing 
a record of them seemed desirable in the interest of local 
history. 2 
Note by St. Clair Baddeley. 
The specimen of “ terra sigillata” bowl (PI. III.) with double- 
curve (diam. 93 mm.) came from a cremation interment at a 
depth of 6 feet 6 inches at Barn wood, close to the present main 
Irmin Street. The stamp (PI. II.) of its maker, carefully 
examined, yields OF. CO. IVC. (? Officina Coci Jucundi), and I 
am not aware of it having occurred previously in Britain. It may 
belong to the first century, as probably did a larger and coarser 
water-jug with bold rim-profile, which was broken in the 
digging. The smaller pot (PI. IV.) of ordinary clay, measuring 
in height but 82 mm. by 77 mm., must be very late in that 
century. They are reproduced by kind permission of Mr. and 
Mrs. Clifford, who found them and observed great care and 
interest in the excavation. It should be noted that among the 
burials, but two exemplified cremation, the rest being burials 
without coffins and generally with a common water-bottle 
undecorated. In one case two fatal blows of some hammer-like 
instrument had been the cause of death : the blows being close 
together, one of them penetrating the brain. In this case the 
jaw r s w ? ere wide open : the individual young. 
St. C. B. 
1 Mr. Baddeley offers the interesting suggestion that as there were villas in the vicinity the 
burials may have been those of folk and slaves from the lands allotted to them, and that the 
trenches may prove to denote separate little areas belonging to the different estates. 
2 My thanks are due to Mr. Sydney Pitcher for kind help given. 
