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it was not considered necessary to incur the expense of 
carrying the trench beyond the crest of the rampart, about 
26 feet from the base of the interior slope. The old surface 
of the earth was readily recognised, and was found to take a 
deep downward slope, so that the “made earth” of the 
rampart, although externally apparently greatly denuded, 
was at least 6 feet thick at the deepest part. The following 
objects were found in this cutting (Plate IV., fig. 3):— 
Nos. 24 and 35. Flint “core,” artificial splinter, and flake. 
Found in interior slope of rampart, about 15 feet from com¬ 
mencement of cutting, and about 2 feet from the surface. 
No. 25. Flint “core,” found in crest of rampart, about 
18 inches from the surface. 
Nos. 27 to 32. Twelve pieces of pottery, varying in size 
from 2‘5 inches by 1*5 inches to quite small fragments, all 
being about .03 inch thick. This pottery is of superior 
quality to that found in No. 1 cutting. It is thinner, harder, 
and is formed of sandy clay, with no grains of quartz or 
pebbles in the paste. The colour is dull reddish brown on 
the surface, but a blackish tint obtains in the centre, an indi¬ 
cation of imperfect firing. The curved form of most of the 
fragments shows that they have belonged to circular vessels, 
and two of the pieces have “rims,” somewhat rudely modelled, 
which project about 0-1 inch. There are no signs of lathe¬ 
turning, and the pottery was doubtless hand-made. A black 
flint flake was found near No. 30. All the pieces came from well 
within the interior slope, about 2J feet from the surface of 
the rampart. 
No. 33. Two flakes, one with three or four “ facets”; and 
No. 34, long slender flake, having good “bulb” and many 
facets; all unweathered, and from a position well under the 
crest of the rampart. 
A fourth cutting was made longitudinally into the same 
piece of rampart, at the point where it slopes away into the 
morass, at the south-east corner, above described. This 
trench was 6 feet broad, and about 14 feet long (see 
Plate IV., fig. 4): in it were only found :— 
No. 36. A small fragment of pottery, seemingly a portion 
