REGINI·M; on bottom of a cup (Type, Dragendorff 27) RVFFI·MA; on fragment ot a bowl (Dragendorff, 37), part of the stamp CINNAMI impressed retrograde (page 223, Fig. 3).
Cleared out January, 1908.
PIT L. Diameter at surface 7 feet; at bottom 4 feet 6 inches. Depth 12 feet 9 inches.
No finds.
Cleared out January, 1908.
PITS LI. to LIII. Were all shallow. About 6 feet in diameter at top, 4 feet at bottom. Depth 6 feet.
No finds except in the last of these, in which a rudely-carved pillar of red sandstone was found.
III. PITS LYING BETWEEN THE DITCHES OF THE LATER FORT.
Field No. 6o8, Ordnance Survey Plan, 25-inch scale. Second Edition. 1898. Roxburghshire, Sheet VIII. 2, Parish of Melrose.
PIT LIV. Diameter at surface 4 feet 6 inches; at bottom 4 feet. Depth 22 feet 6 inches. The pit contained a considerable amount of black deposit.
Finds. The pieces of a quern of Niedermendig lava, leather, animal bones, handles of amphorae, and a large number of fragments of broken pottery. The following potters' stamps occur: on bottom of a cup (Type, Dragendorff 27), found at a depth of 10 feet, the stamp DAGO; on a fragment of bottom, OF·COTTO; on bottom of cup (Type, Dragendorff 27), OF·IVCVN. A fragment of a bowl of Terra Sigillata with transition decoration, other pieces of which were found near the surface (page 211, Fig. 5). Leather, including a number of circular patches, was common. An iron stylus, a small brass hinge (Plate LXXVII., Fig. 12); an iron spear-head (Plate XXXVI., Fig. 3); a key (Plate LXXVIII., Fig. 2); a small knife (Plate LX., Fig. 7); two hooks, a looped object of brass (Plate XXXV., Fig. 14); an oak mallet (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 3); a wooden bobbin, and the end of a wooden pipe with a stopper (Fig. 45, page 311); the bottom of a bucket and four wooden objects resembling spokes of a wheel.
Cleared out 18 April, 1908.
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