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several chalk weights, with a hole near the top by which to 
suspend them. These ‘ finds' were taken as proof positive 
of an occupation as far back as 800 b. c. But, more remark¬ 
able still, especially as showing the probable use to which 
these pits were some of them put, at the . bottom of one of 
them was found a quantity of grains of wheat, barley, and 
oats—black with age and decay, but still preserving each 
their well-defined form; and there can exist, therefore, but 
little doubt that these pits were the storehouses of the 
inhabitants of the camp. In another of the pits the explorers 
came across a large stone which had evidently been employed 
for grinding corn.” The Winklebury explored was the camp 
of that name on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset, not the 
Winklebury near Basingstoke. 
The Isle oe Portland. 
A short notice in the ‘English Mechanic and World of 
Science ’ of the excursion of the Geologists’ Association and 
Essex Field Club to the Deneholes of Hangman’s Wood in the 
summer of 1853 attracted the attention of Mr. A. M. Wallis, a 
quarryman and fossil-collector living in the Isle of Portland. 
He thereupon wrote to Dr. Foulerton, Honorary Secretary to 
the Geologists’ Association, describing and sending drawings 
of some remarkable beehive-shaped excavations recently laid 
bare during quarry-extensions in Portland. Mr. Wallis’s 
letter having been referred to me at the meeting of the 
Geologists’ Association in December, 1888, I visited the Isle 
of Portland in March, 1884, in order to see something of 
these holes, and an account of this visit is given in Proc. 
Geol. Assoc., vol. viii., Part 7 (July, 1884). No holes of this 
kind have ever been discovered in Portland previous to the 
last two years or thereabouts, and they have been found by 
the quarrymen when removing some fifteen or twenty feet of 
Purbeck Beds at the surface in order to get at the Portland 
stone beneath. Those hitherto discovered have all been a 
little eastward of the road between Yeales and Easton, 
towards the northern end of the island. These beehive- 
shaped pits were all walled-in by pieces of the rubble-stone in 
which they are mainly excavated, and varied considerably in 
size. The largest chambers were seven or eight feet in 
height, and about nine feet in diameter at the bottom, the 
floor being eleven or twelve feet beneath the surface of the 
ground. The smallest chambers were only about four feet 
high, and six feet in diameter or thereabouts. The entrance 
to them was a narrow opening in the middle of the roof, j ust 
