lead weight of a steelyard (Plate LXXXIII., Fig. 9). At 33 feet, bottom of a dish (Type, Dragendorff 18), with the stamp OF·VITAL. Many wood chips, hazel stems and nuts, stems of heather, bracken, and moss.
Cleared out 18 November, 1908.
PIT LXII. Diameter at surface 6 feet 6 inches; at bottom 3 feet. Depth 22 feet. Black deposit began at 12 feet 6 inches.
Finds. A few pieces of bone, scraps of leather, branches of birch, a small piece of a bowl (Type, Dragendorif 37) showing arrow-point decoration, and a portion of a dish of smooth grey ware.
Cleared out 12 November, 1908.
PIT LXIII. Diameter at surface 6 feet 6 inches; at bottom 3 feet 8 inches. Depth 14 feet 6 inches. Black deposit began at 9 feet.
Finds. Fragments from two beaker urns of 'rustic ware.' Part of bowl (Type, Dragendorff 37)) transition foliage, and portions of three others, one showing mend with lead clamps (page 213, Figs. 7–1l). Part of the handle of a bronze patella. Two pieces of slag. Part of a cup and of a shallow bowl (Types, Dragendorff 27 and 35) with lotus decoration on rim.
Cleared out 1 December, 1908.
PIT LXIV. Diameter at surface 6 feet 6 inches; at bottom 3 feet. Depth 9 feet.
Finds. A few fragments of pottery. Part of cup (Type, Dragendorff 27). Part of small decorated pot (Déchelette Type 67), and of bowls (Type, Dragendorff 29 and 37).
Cleared out 30 November, 1908.
PIT LXV. Rectangular in shape. Size at surface 6 feet by 7 feet 6 inches. At bottom 3 feet 6 inches by 4 feet 3 inches. Depth 17 feet. Black deposit began at 9 feet.
Finds. At 8 feet, a denarius of Galba. In the black deposit a button-like object of horn (Plate LXXVII., Fig. 16); the spring of a fibula (Plate LXXXV., Fig. 10), a hinge, a loop, a surgeon's probe (Plate XCIII., Fig. 13), all of brass; two ribbed melon-shaped beads. At the bottom a hanging lamp of iron (Plate LXXIX., Fig. 7); a denarius of the Republican period, Gens Cordia, B.C. 46; fragments of a black beaker urn (Plate XLIX. (A), Fig. 7) and of a cup (Type, Dragendorff 27), and of several flat-rimmed pans, and other coarse vessels. A short neatly turned piece of wood resembling a spoke for a small wheel. In one corner of the pit a steering oar of oak 5 feet 5 inches long stood upright (Plate LXIX., Fig. 5).
Cleared out 5 December, 1908.
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