62 Report on the excavation of the Earthwork
No. 8. Fragment of rim, about 2 inches by 11/2 and 0.40
inch thick; it has large grains of white and grey quartz, and
red, grey and black pebble, in its composition; it is dull red
on the outside and inside of the pot, and brown in the
interior of the substance; the thickness of the pot is only
slightly enlarged at the rim to about 0.42 inch, and the rim
is a different shape from No. 5. It is hand-made, very uneven
on its surface, and the rim rudely formed. Such a piece of
pottery might safely be pronounced of British manufacture.
Found in the body of the rampart ou the old surface line.
See the chromo-lithograph plate, Fig. 2, Pl. V.
No. 10. One flint flake or chip with bulb of percussion and
one facet, and fragment of pottery about 2 inches by 11/2 and
0.32 inch thick ; brick-red on the outside and inside, and dark
brown or black in the interior of the substance ; no grains of
quartz. Resembling No. 7 in quality; no marks of lathe.
British or Romano-British. Found in body of rampart on or
near the old surface line. See Fig. 3, Pl. V.
No. 12. Fragment of rim 11/2 inch by 1 and 0.44 inch
thick; dull red outside and inside, and red-brown in the
interior of the substance; no grains of quartz in its com-
position, of smooth pasty texture; the rim projects more
than No. 8, but is less evenly formed than No. 5. It is
hand-made, and must be British. From the body of the
rampart.4 Fig. 4, Pl. V.
No. 13. A piece of much-corroded iron, about 2 inches
long and 0.50 inch thick. Found in the silting of the ditch,
about 23/4 feet beneath the surface, but too high up to be
necessarily, or even probably, of the age of the construction
of the camp.
No. 14. Piece of pottery, about 1 inch square and 0.18
inch thick, with small grains of sand in its composition, both
thinner and harder than that found in the rampart, but much
weathered ; probably wheel-turned. It is of a uniform red-
brown colour throughout, and was found 3 feet beneath the
4 [On or near the old surface line; exact position unknown. Found by
Mr. Fisher Unwin in examining the earth just thrown into the cart by the
workmen digging out the old surface line spit.—Ed.]