102 Miscellaneous Xotes on Deneholes. 
Reference to PL II. in Mr. Spurrell’s paper in the ‘Archae¬ 
ological Journal’ shows a pit (No. 1) which has been excavated 
neither according to the bee-hive nor the double-trefoil plan, 
but consists of three chambers radiating from the shaft at 
nearly equal distances apart, the chambers themselves being 
of about equal size. This pit is situated nearly midway 
between those at Cavey Spring and that which we descended, 
and is the only one figured by Mr. Spurrell at all resembling 
the latter as regards plan of excavation. But while Mr. 
Spurrell’s No. 1 consists of three chambers each measuring 
15 ft. or 16 ft. in length (from the centre of the shaft), our 
pit was found to comprise two chambers 49 ft. long, and a 
third only 19 ft. And in addition to this striking irregularity 
in size, the chambers of our pit were found to radiate at very 
unequal distances from each other. If the shortest chamber 
be called No. 1, the nearest to it of the two long ones No. 2, 
and the remaining chamber No. 3, then the amount of this 
irregularity may be shown by the statement that the angle 
between the directions of Nos. 1 and 2 was found to be about 
90 degrees, that between Nos. 2 and 3, 120 degrees, and that 
between Nos. 3 and 1, 150 degrees. An additional irregularity 
was given to the appearance of this pit by the existence of an 
unfinished attempt to make a communication between Nos. 1 
and 2, by means of galleries driven at right angles to the 
general directions of those chambers. But the gallery from 
the side of No. 2 being about 11 ft. 6 in. long, while that of 
No. 1 was scarcely half that length, five or six feet of chalk 
still remain to be cut through from No. 1. The total depth 
of the pit was about 52 ft. The thickness of the chalk roof 
was unusually great, being about 7 ft. 6 in. close to the shaft, 
while it must have attained 14 ft. or 15 ft. at the further ends 
of the chambers. The floor was somewhat more uneven than 
usual, rising considerably towards the ends of the chambers. 
Considering their length, the tw T o long chambers were very 
narrow ; their height, near the shaft, at least 20 ft. The shaft 
was about 4 ft. in diameter, having suffered considerably from 
the weather. "While down the pit the chief impression of 
irregularity was derived from the two recesses made to connect 
