These formea 16% of tne total artifact assemblage, a very much smaller proportion than in the other valleys (48% Kiln Comte; 55% Itford Bottom). This in itself suggests either less activity hereabouts in the lithic periods or that less evidence has survived. Certainly what was found amounted to a rather unprepossessing collection including only 58 tools, tne majority of these not recognisable tool types and classified as ‘other retouched pieces’. The main recognisable tool types were simple scrapers which would not be out of place in Neolithic to Bronze Age contexts. The generally crude nature of the flint-work and the paucity of tool types, other than scrapers, might imply that much of this material belongs to the latter part of this range.

List of diagnostic sherds by fabric type from Chalton, Trench B. Where a group of sherd numbers are Within brackets they are so similar in fabric and decorative motif that they probably derive from the same vessel, though they do not join.

Layer 3 was examined in the fiela and provisionally interpreted as a Bt horizon. A sample (locaxion shown on fig.5) was examined in thin section in order to throw further light on how the layer had formed. It can be described as follows using the method and terminology of Brewer 1964, Bullock and Murphy 1979:- Homogeneous; well developed fine and meciium subangular blocky; total macrovoids (> 20 μm) 13.1%; smoothed orthovughs and channels occur intrapedally; silt-size mineral grains dominantly quartz; includes fine gravel-size flint; coarse grains angular; small grains moderately rounded; many fine void argillans (few medium); few compound ferri-argillans; few embedded argillans; common to many fine to medium matrans and matri-argillans; common to many irregular, and linear intrapedal clay concentrations; few fine to medium distinct ferromanganiferous nodules; finely mixed organic matter and medium organic matter fragments in matrix; fine organic matter and charcoal fragments in matrans; silt layers within compound matrans ana matri-argillans; silasepic; porphyroskelic.