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Nos. 3, 5, and 6. Five small fragments of pottery of very
irregular shape, the largest about 2 inches by 1.5 inches, and
about 0.5 inch thick. They are dull red in colour, somewhat
darker on the smoother or interior surface, and quite blackish
in the middle of the paste, owing to imperfect firing. The
texture is very coarse, the pottery containing angular pieces
of quartz and coloured pebble of comparatively considerable
size, with sand. It is decidedly hand-made, and probably of
British manufacture. Found on or near old surface line,
beneath the crest of the rampart, 30-35 feet from foot of
interior slope, with abundant traces of charcoal, &c.
No. 4. Black flint flake, not weathered, with good "bulb"
and two "facets." Found with Nos. 3, 5, and 6.
No. 7. "Outside flint flake near old surface line, beneath
crest of rampart.
No. 8 (a, b). Two good flint flakes, unweathered; the nar-
rower one (b) showing distinct marks of use at both ends.
Found beneath exterior slope of rampart, about 21/2 feet down.
Nos. 9 and 10. Flint "core" and flake with many "facets,"
both unweathered; found in exterior slope of rampart, about
2 feet down.
No. 11. Flint "core," from which flakes have been struck ;
found about 31/2 feet down in the silt accumulated in the fosse.
The indistinctness of the outlines of the ditch, and the
paucity of the evidence above obtained, rendered another
cutting necessary, and a new one, 7 feet wide, was com-
menced on June 8th through the vallum near the south-west
corner of the camp. The line of junction between the made
earth, silt, and the original surface was here more clearly
traceable, and could be laid down with tolerable accuracy
upon the plan, except the commencement of the escarp, con-
cerning the exact angle of which some little doubt was felt.
On clearing out the fosse, in which 61/2 feet of silt had
accumulated, its form was found to be pointed, as was the
case at Ambresbury Banks. The soil at the bottom of the
ditch was quite peaty, and water rose in the cutting for a
foot or two. The rampart is now only about 6 feet above the
old level of the earth, and its angles are so altered by severe