108 Miscellaneous Notes on Deneholes. 
size exists. It is on the road between Ayacucho and 
Huancavelica, in Peru, and is called ‘ Rumi-Huasi’ (Quechua 
for stone-house). A porphyritic rock forms a high cliff on 
the roadside, and out of it has been carved a very large 
storehouse, about 60 ft. by 80 ft., and 6 to 7 ft. high, as 
nearly as I can recollect. It is used by the villagers there, a 
community of some thirty families, for storing wheat, barley, 
maize, potatoes, &c. Each family keeps its stock separate by 
means of the limits indicated by niches or shallow arches 
carved around the sides. The entrance to this store is a hole 
about four feet square in the face of the cliff, which is kept 
closed by a stone exactly fitting the opening. The Indians 
say it was a storehouse of the Incas, but whether this is true 
or not I cannot say. The smaller store-holes vary very much 
in shape. They are made in retired spots, in any rock that 
may be convenient. They are all more or less old—at least 
the Indians say they were excavated by the ‘Gentiles,’ as 
they call their forefathers who existed before the Spanish 
Conquest. The people using them are the civilised commu¬ 
nities of Quechua and Aymara Indians. I do not think they 
were ever dwellings, but that they have always been used as 
storehouses. The Indians generally store their grain-crops 
in straw and ear. When they have any stock of grain or 
flour, they keep it in earthen pots within the granary. Many 
of these pots are of very large size, as large as the entrance 
will allow them to be. The shape of the entrance varies, but 
the stone by which the entrance is closed always fits 
accurately, so that the position of the store is by no means 
obvious to the casual passer-by. I had ridden many times 
past the great store mentioned without having suspected its 
existence, till I one day passed when the entrance-stone had 
been rolled back.” 
Appendix III. 
Ancient British Granaries. 
WlNKLEBURY. 
In the ‘Times’ of September 1st, 1883, an account is given 
of the exploration of the ancient camp known as Winklebury, 
which has recently been examined by Maj.-Gen. Pitt Rivers. 
The writer states that one of the most interesting discoveries 
was that of “ a considerable number of pits excavated out of 
the chalk within the area of the camp. Some of these were 
as much as four feet in diameter, and upon being cleared out 
there were turned up, among other things, a fragment of a 
hone comb, such as must have been used in weaving, and 
